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Abandoning the Public Interest
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-Abandoningthepublicinterest.htmhttp://newint.org/features/2001/01/05/aslee 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 [0xc000930a80 0xc00165bb30 0xc00025a750 0xc0003fb200 0xc0002faf00 0xc0005b2bd0 0xc0001b6e40 0xc00045bcb0 0xc0004701b0 0xc000a25710 0xc000a542d0 0xc0016362d0 0xc0017f44e0 0xc00180a4b0 0xc001833e30 0xc001f0f530 0xc002345650 0xc002345f80 0xc001edc210 0xc0029adf50] Cx} Year Published: 2001 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX5282 The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization. Abstract: 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. Subject Headings
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