Tuesday, 19 January 2016

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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