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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 [0xc00098ea20 0xc001ce51d0 0xc0001f9590 0xc0003f5f80 0xc0003a7aa0 0xc000505740 0xc0005ce510 0xc000373260 0xc000373740 0xc000b303c0 0xc000b30f60 0xc00160ecf0 0xc001a64d50 0xc001a8cd20 0xc001af86c0 0xc001fbdcb0 0xc002129da0 0xc0021406f0 0xc00200eab0 0xc002996f60] 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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