Thus, even India renounces svadeshi and throws its 900 million people into the arms of a global doctrine that believes the only way for the poor to become a little less poor is for the already rich to become immensely more rich. To conceal this, the immense costs to the health, well-being, the integrity of humanity and the human home, are inflexibly excluded from its cold calculus of cash. This can be to the advantage only of those who think that economic necessity and human need are one and the same thing. The real economic miracle of the West has been the achievement of prodigious wealth which nevertheless fails to relieve poverty, but, on the contrary, only produces strange new mutations and forms of misery and impoverishment. The most prestigious project of the British Overseas Development Agency, the Western Ghats Reforestation Project in India, reserves almost one-third of its disbursements for consultancies within the United Kingdom, a country which, having successfully ruined its own forests 200 years ago, is now instructing the people of Karnataka, millennial guardians of their own jungles, how to improve on nature.
Free trade means compulsory business on the terms of the strong and powerful.
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