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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 [0xc00093e870 0xc00162c4e0 0xc0001a8e10 0xc00030b4d0 0xc00026ff20 0xc000428cf0 0xc000b317d0 0xc00021de00 0xc000242300 0xc00066bec0 0xc0006b2a80 0xc0012df980 0xc001621740 0xc00165b590 0xc001728f30 0xc001cbe1b0 0xc0020d0120 0xc0020d0a50 0xc001f15a70 0xc00288ae40] 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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