blessed britons

The British government has:
- proclaimed for itself the right to use torture evidence in legal proceedings;
- devised agreements to make it possible to send people back to the risk of torture;
- attempted to overturn European human rights law banning such returns;
- refused to condemn (and thus condoned) the U.S. policy of “extraordinary rendition”—state kidnap, delivering people to be tortured in third countries;
- shared information with other governments that led to the apprehension of UK residents who were then subjected to “extraordinary rendition” by the U.S.;
- whitewashed (and thus condoned) U.S. policies on torture.

mad world

In 1991, a cyclone hit the coast of Bangladesh, coinciding with high tides that left 10 million people homeless and killed 139,000. Most of these people were living on mudflats in the deltas. People continue to live there in large numbers because they have nowhere else to go. But if sea levels continue to rise, many peasant farmers will have no land left. As many as 70 million people could be affected in Bangladesh, and a similar number in China. Millions more Egyptian farmers on the Nile delta also stand to lose their land.

— Peter Singer in One World

aviation

dying to travel

Submitted by antarchi on November 6, 2007 - 00:21.

Sir Rod Eddington, [former chief executive of British Airways] was asked to advise the government on the links between transport and the UK's economic growth. He found that even when the costs of climate change... are taken into account, the total costs of expanding the UK's airports and road networks are lower than the amount of money to be made. Though he never spelled it out in these terms... Eddington discovered that it makes economic sense for people to die in order that we can travel more.

Those who will feel most of the costs of climate change do not live in the United Kingdom... Eddington has decided that it makes economic sense for other people to die in order that we can travel more freely.

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