Abandoning the Public Interest

Diemer, Ulli
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-Abandoningthepublicinterest.htm
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Date Written:  2000-10-07
Year First Published:  {10047 Abandoning the Public Interest ABANDONING THE PUBLIC INTEREST Diemer, Ulli http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-Abandoningthepublicinterest.htm http://newint.org/features/2001/01/05/aslee Canada The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization. 2000-10-07 2000 2001 UlliMooseLogo.jpg ART Article According to Ulli Diemer, we are witnessing a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. A new generation of politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, is jettisoning, with little thought or understanding of the consequences, the apparatus previous generations built, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization. <br> <br>What we are losing as a result are not only specific protective and regulatory mechanisms, important as they are, but the understanding of why they exist, why they were created in the first place. The hard-won experiences of the past, the disasters that our ancestors learned from at great cost, are disappearing down the memory hole. CX5282 1 true true false CX5282.htm [0xc000b09aa0 0xc00204b830 0xc0001cc0f0 0xc0003542a0 0xc0001d6f90 0xc0003a0cc0 0xc000a61590 0xc0000e9170 0xc0000e9620 0xc001f2d7d0 0xc001f52390 0xc0008ba570 0xc000ccdc20 0xc000d21a10 0xc000dfb350 0xc000f4cff0 0xc0014c6bd0 0xc0014c74d0 0xc000f459b0 0xc001f3c510] Cx}
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The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.

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According to Ulli Diemer, we are witnessing a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. A new generation of politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, is jettisoning, with little thought or understanding of the consequences, the apparatus previous generations built, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization.

What we are losing as a result are not only specific protective and regulatory mechanisms, important as they are, but the understanding of why they exist, why they were created in the first place. The hard-won experiences of the past, the disasters that our ancestors learned from at great cost, are disappearing down the memory hole.

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