[SOC] UK - the new Siberia by 2020?

[Paul Bartlett]

Carlos,

>
> I Know it is common to play the class card in most discussions,
> but could you please tell me when, during the entire recorded history
> of mankind it has not been about money/power and control.
> Read some Babylonian, Roman, British, Religious  history and you will
> see that the struggle has always been for haves to keep and acquire
> more and the have-nots to want to over throw the status so they can
> be the haves. This is not about right or wrong, it's about human nature.
>

You're right to a large extent IMHO. However the difference now is that with
advancing technology we are manipulating the environment. In the past, such
activities did sod all to affect the world. There weren't enough people and
neither the tools to do anything particularly bad on anything other than a
purely local scale.

Now I'm no tree hugger but I find it increasingly worrying that potential
long term dangers seem to be being ignored for the sake of a short-term
dollar/pound/euro/rouble/whatever.

Big business, it seems to me, has much to answer for. It's depressing.

Paul