RE: Kerry Tells Africans Not To Create More Farms For Starving Children
Simultaneously zerO is pushing for loan guarantees and other world bank, I think, funding to bring electricity to what was originally be 20mm African homes and businesses, but ramped that up to 60mm just yesterday.
Sooooo, while I consider to that to be a commendable endeavor, and would likely start an industrial revolution of sorts on the Continent, where's all that energy and power gonna come from?
I'm not guessing burning trees or a bunch of big asss fans in the Sahara. I'd have to think it will be largely coal driven.
So, yea. Work to put them out of business around here "rates will necessarily skyrocket", while pushing for increased fuel consumption to electrify Mother Country.
All while the sock puppet tells them not to grow more food cause of globalchaoticclimatechangewarmingarama... I wonder if he thinks his bœuf bourguignon simply comes from the grocery store or his private chefs secret stash?
Moron.
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2014 12:16 PM by JMUDunk.)
RE: Kerry Tells Africans Not To Create More Farms For Starving Children
So, we are going to flush a bunch of money down the corruption toilet known as Africa? It won't matter. Little progress gets made towards modernity in Africa. The funds get siphoned off at the top and there seems little will to maintain the infrastructure.
Don't believe me? Bloomberg had an article today on how the west sent much $$ to Ghana a while back for sanitation (sanitary sewers, water treatment plants, etc.)
Quote:Despite a series of infrastructure projects backed by foreign donors, Accra doesn’t have a working sewer system, leaving most of its citizens to choose between communal latrines or defecating on open ground. That’s contaminating the city’s groundwater, according to the World Bank, and almost 700 people have contracted cholera since June. The failure to maintain existing treatment plants has rendered them unusable, while a lack of political will means there’s little prospect of any immediate improvement.
Accra’s problems are an example of how external investment and good intentions often aren’t enough to make a difference in Africa. As many as seven out of 10 people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to flush or chemical toilets or latrines, according to the World Bank.
Quote:“Ghana is among those countries with the lowest coverage in sanitation and also among those where coverage isn’t improving,” Flemming Konradsen, an expert on international environmental health at the University of Copenhagen, said by phone. “Sanitation generally isn’t a priority of the population and it isn’t a sufficient priority of politicians.”
RE: Kerry Tells Africans Not To Create More Farms For Starving Children
(08-06-2014 06:57 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: So, we are going to flush a bunch of money down the corruption toilet known as Africa? It won't matter. Little progress gets made towards modernity in Africa. The funds get siphoned off at the top and there seems little will to maintain the infrastructure.
Don't believe me? Bloomberg had an article today on how the west sent much $$ to Ghana a while back for sanitation (sanitary sewers, water treatment plants, etc.)
Quote:Despite a series of infrastructure projects backed by foreign donors, Accra doesn’t have a working sewer system, leaving most of its citizens to choose between communal latrines or defecating on open ground. That’s contaminating the city’s groundwater, according to the World Bank, and almost 700 people have contracted cholera since June. The failure to maintain existing treatment plants has rendered them unusable, while a lack of political will means there’s little prospect of any immediate improvement.
Accra’s problems are an example of how external investment and good intentions often aren’t enough to make a difference in Africa. As many as seven out of 10 people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to flush or chemical toilets or latrines, according to the World Bank.
Quote:“Ghana is among those countries with the lowest coverage in sanitation and also among those where coverage isn’t improving,” Flemming Konradsen, an expert on international environmental health at the University of Copenhagen, said by phone. “Sanitation generally isn’t a priority of the population and it isn’t a sufficient priority of politicians.”
RE: Kerry Tells Africans Not To Create More Farms For Starving Children
(08-06-2014 06:57 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: So, we are going to flush a bunch of money down the corruption toilet known as Africa? It won't matter. Little progress gets made towards modernity in Africa. The funds get siphoned off at the top and there seems little will to maintain the infrastructure.
Don't believe me? Bloomberg had an article today on how the west sent much $$ to Ghana a while back for sanitation (sanitary sewers, water treatment plants, etc.)
Quote:Despite a series of infrastructure projects backed by foreign donors, Accra doesn’t have a working sewer system, leaving most of its citizens to choose between communal latrines or defecating on open ground. That’s contaminating the city’s groundwater, according to the World Bank, and almost 700 people have contracted cholera since June. The failure to maintain existing treatment plants has rendered them unusable, while a lack of political will means there’s little prospect of any immediate improvement.
Accra’s problems are an example of how external investment and good intentions often aren’t enough to make a difference in Africa. As many as seven out of 10 people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to flush or chemical toilets or latrines, according to the World Bank.
Quote:“Ghana is among those countries with the lowest coverage in sanitation and also among those where coverage isn’t improving,” Flemming Konradsen, an expert on international environmental health at the University of Copenhagen, said by phone. “Sanitation generally isn’t a priority of the population and it isn’t a sufficient priority of politicians.”
I apologize for the timing and hope nobody was eating dinner and reading at the same time.
You can only give them the tools. You can't do the work for them. If you do, it will fall into disrepair and be right back where you started within months.