Company and development
The development also undermines the social fabric because it puts us all against each other as we rush to make more money and climb higher up the social ladder, puts the rich north and poor south against the perpetrator a new form of colonialism as cruel and rude of its most obvious manifestations of the last century and the previous one.
tools of this new type of colonialism are haunted by the development of world class organizations (WTO), the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) all operating outside the democratic process, with no elected representatives who meet behind closed doors, responsible only to the owners of the company.
The objective of these institutions is to promote economic development can all defend the "free market" which means the free flow of goods and investments across national borders without hindrance or impediment by sovereign national governments.
The main results of these agreements have increased the social and ecological control.
For example, the liberalization of the market according to the rules of the WTO has meant that food grown in the north with the help of heavy government subsidies to flow in the markets of the south, being more competitive than the price of local product pushing thousands of farmers off their land of prosperous cities and ghettos. The free market rules also allow transnational corporations to move industries in countries where labor is cheap and taxes and the environment are minimal.
companies must pay local taxes from which TNCs are exempt because they can threaten to move their operations elsewhere.
governments lose revenue and therefore have fewer resources for social welfare programs and environmental protection.
These agreements often have serious social and ecological consequences.
The World Bank has granted loans to establish shrimp farming in all the tropics, and the money was used to remove large areas covered by mangrove swamps and other wetlands for these activities, which sell their product to distant markets for goods and luxury in the West. But
swamps covered with mangroves, as we discovered during the recent Asian tsunami disaster, are vital for coastal protection. They also provide home to a variety of living things and of course, from a deep ecology perspective, is valuable in itself for the sole reason to exist.
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