News from Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong, DarjeelingHills by darjeelingTimes

++ Himalyan Injustice ++ Do we know that 10% of developed world population consumes 95% of World resources like petroleum, mining resources, seafood from ocean, forest resources etc. Even before a developing country like India would realise what is happening, our Oceans and Seas will be without fishes and seafood, our atmosphere is full of Green House gases. Resources from oceans belong to every country but few developed countries over fish and there is no control over it. UN stands mute on this. The activities of the developed is primarily responsible for the Global Warming.
(Posted by Samir Thapa, September 3, 2009, 12:13 AM)

Each and every product produced, consumed and used by heat burnings, electrical appliances, motor cars and all vehicles, industrial and domestic gases, Cooking fuels of any kind and all products of smokings - cigerettes, cigars,bidis, katuwas, smoking pipes and drugs must be banned and come under the laws of the greenhouse gases, global warming and disappearances of natural resourses and natural habitats. Needless to blame the poor people but the Industrialists must bear the burden and consequenses of Flooding, Global warmings and disastrous phenomenon taking places right infront of our eyes throughout the corners of the world not just in one particular place.
(Posted by Plains dilemma, August 31, 2009, 11:50 PM)

So our farmers are to blame for flood in Bangladesh? By same comical logic, why not blame on biri walas in planes of bangal. People smoke biri and produce green house gasses that contribute to global warming and melting of glaciers and flood in Bangladesh. Lol!! Isn't Global warming supposed to be a global phenomenon, as the name suggets? Locally little can be done.
(Posted by layman, August 31, 2009, 5:08 PM)

Blaming the poor, blaming the locals is a typical "Chicago School of Economics" line of thought... which simultaneously promotes the need for large scale international development projects, large scale hydro-developments, large scale forestry... etc etc etc..... How can these morons forget that the so called "poor mountain dwellers and farmers" have been living sustainably for centuries... its only since the globalization and liberalization of India that started in 1990s, that things have started to go downhill...... Well written as always Vimal daa... and good to know its an international publication.
(Posted by Upendra, August 31, 2009, 3:36 AM)

It's an eye opener for blind representatives of the State and Central governments. But as usual who cares for people in hills. They have more important things to do than to address hill's apathy for a change. This detrimental situation was there 50 years ago and is still being ignored in order to punish Gorkhas. The African Americans are far far better off in their adopted home than us the savior of the nation in our own country.
(Posted by A Gorkhay Blood, August 30, 2009, 7:42 PM)

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