Who looted India’s missing thorium? -- Sandeep Balakrishna
By Sandeep Balakrishna on September 4, 2012
Tags: 2G, Canada, CWG scam, Coal-gate, 2006 Extraordinary Notification to the Schedule of Prescribed Substances, illegal mining, ecological destruction, illegal-thorium-mining
Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realise, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.
When the Abenaki tribesperson, Alanis Obomsawin uttered these words in the 1970s, she was referring to modern consumerist economies, which indiscriminately destroy nature in order to create material prosperity for their citizens.
Governments have gotten a little stricter on this issue since then but the destruction of nature continues at varying levels of intensity across the world. However, in India, over the last eight years, the pace of this destruction has actually accelerated by and for the aggrandisement of a small coterie of people who have thrown every principle, caution, and scruple to the wind.
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