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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 [0xc0009b3ec0 0xc001d1f590 0xc000244fc0 0xc000415320 0xc00030c450 0xc000518bd0 0xc000b1c150 0xc0002ddd70 0xc0002fa270 0xc000203710 0xc0002342d0 0xc000eadc20 0xc00103f440 0xc00104d230 0xc00107cb70 0xc0015d6c60 0xc0018fa8d0 0xc0018fb1d0 0xc0016508d0 0xc00264a360] 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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