But Subsitence is destroyed . The ideology of progress is there, blared louder than ever by those with something to hide, a cover-up for plunder and murder on levels never before witnessed. The Industrialsation of the Third World is a story familiar to anyone who takes even a glance at what is occuring. The colonial countries are nothing but a dumping ground and pool of cheap labor for capitalist corporations. Obselete technology is shipped there along with the production of chemicals, medicines and other products banned in the developed world.
Labor is cheap, there are few if any safety standards, costs are cut.
Chemicals found to be dangerous and banned in Europe and the U.S. are produced instead overseas - DDT is a well known example of an enormous number of such products, such as the unregistered pesticide Leptophos exported by the Velsicol Corporation to Egypt which killed and injured many Egyptian farmers in the mid 1970's. Another example was the wanton contamination of Nicaragauas lake Managua by a chlorine caustic soda factory owned by Pennwalt Corporation and other investors, which caused a major outbreak of mecury poisoning in a primary source of fish for the people living in Managua. In an asbestos cement factory owned by the Manville Corporation 200 miles west of Bhopol, workers in 1981 were routinly coverd with asbestos dust, a parctise that would never be tolerated here. Some 22,500 people are killed every year by exposure to insecticides- a much higher percentage of them in the Third World than use of such chemicals would suggest. Another event of such mammoth proportions as those of Bhopal would suggest otherwise - in this case, industrial pollution killed some 4,000 people in a large population centre.