Third
World Exploitation
As
the vulnerable are the target to be victim, the victims of pollution and other
ecological perils are the third world (economically poorer countries). The more
industrialized countries in order to reduce their ecological problem dump the
toxic industrial wastes, radio-active materials in poorer countries especially
by the multinational companies. And these poorer countries do not have the
technology to monitor the waste materials and sometimes the officials are
bribed. An example for this exploitation: in 1946, the US ordered the
inhabitants of Bikini Atoll (a small island in the Pacific Ocean) to vacate the
Island to make way for nuclear bomb testing. Twenty years later the indigenous
people returned to their homeland but found it barren waste. The same US is the cause of 20 percent of air
pollution in the world while it is the country only of 4 percent of the
population. The poorer countries are not able to resist the effect of these deadly gases.
Thus the third world countries are exploited through pollution.
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