Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: M Holmes
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:06

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In ed.general Jon is Away! <jon@restlesslemon.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian Johnston wrote:

>> So you reckon a move back to subsistence farming is the way out of
>> poverty?

> I believe that the ability to support your people should take priority
> over the production of luxury goods for other nations. Especially when
> the "Free Market" rules ensure that you cannot raise enough money from
> those goods to support your people.

So do you think *we* should go back to subsistence farming to support
*our* people? After all, we're producing luxury goods for trade on
international markets too.

> Without the trade rules holding them hostage, those goods _might_
> provide a necessary income, but without an immediate need to compete in
> a global market place, life can take priority.

Don't you think life should take priority in Britain too?

> <anecdote>
> A friend spent a year in Uganda, teaching sustainable farming
> techniques to the locals. Some of these were techniques which had
> previously been used before the colonisation of Africa by the European
> nations. 

So nobody was in poverty there back then? 

> It is possible to fast track a country to a modern technological level
> (I think), but it will involve social upheaval and a _serious_
> commitment of support from another state.

China is doing this. Who's supporting them?

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From: M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: scot.general,ed.general,uk.rec.cycling,scot.environment
Subject: Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005
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