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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 [0xc00079e9c0 0xc00164cd80 0xc00028ea50 0xc000433410 0xc00039ed20 0xc0005501b0 0xc00020d440 0xc0004aa150 0xc0004aa630 0xc000605c50 0xc000628810 0xc00130c150 0xc001582180 0xc0015b6120 0xc001649aa0 0xc001c3b020 0xc0021130e0 0xc002113a10 0xc001f178c0 0xc00285fbf0] 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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