![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The accomplishment of all this work, and this expenditure of money, have increased to an extent absolutely incalculable the wealth and comfort of the people of India,’ according to Sir Richard and General Sir John Strachey, two leading British officials in India. ![]() The British ruling class defended the seizure of India as a colony by claiming it brought prosperity, and improved communications, roads and railways. Resources were sucked out and used to bolster British business interests across the world. British imperialism dominated these countries, and others. In Ireland, Africa and India the local population starved to death while food was exported so that their rich conquerors could grow even richer. He shows how imperialism and colonialism killed millions and stripped continents of their natural resources. An excellent new book by Mike Davis uses the example of famines at the end of the 19th century to show that disasters are often not ‘natural’ at all. Human beings do have control over these life and death situations. Millions of people in the Third World are driven into destitution or early graves by a drought or flooding which we are told human beings have no control over.īut the reality is more brutal. ![]() We are told that the lives of many of the poorest people across the world are often at the mercy of ‘natural disasters’. ![]()
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