Surviving Progress Page #4

this is a bank, not a charity.

The number 1 costs for foreign lending through

some of the multilateral associations.

IMF or World Bank is the

death tomb on the continent.

We can look at the support of the dictators

that took place thirty years ago

from 1960 till 1997, of a brutal dictator.

He was given humengous loans.

Everyone knew he wasn't using

that for the population

he was propped up as one of the biggest

leader in the whole african continent.

While your country is

young, only 10 years of age

that it is had a period of

progress in that period,

which has been an example for

nations throughout the world.

You have moved forward economicaly, you

have estabilished unity in your country

and you have a vitality, which impresses

every visitor when he comes to Congo.

What is interesitng is all the money

and plunder from all iternational debt

is found in western banks, so

as he was removed from power

the money never returned to the Congies.

The population didn't have

access to medical services

didn't have access to adequate

education, living wage and

calculating up to date, now

Congo has 14 bln dollar debt

structure and the weight where the people

do not benefit and human cost is so high.

In Congo we have 6 million

deaths since 1996.

Rich countries lend, so called, "developping

countries" a big wack of "money".

Debt is incurred on behalf of people who have nothing

to do with it and don't know anything about it.

Then they are expected to pay the price by scraping

off their livelihood turning it into money.

Giving it to somebody else...

Howcome the money given to

common benefit of the people

use some of the funds to make sure that there

are strongest against secesion in the country

protecting against human rights violation,

so many other issues that we face

but these funds are not used for

that because whatever is given

they tell you specifically what

project you have to use it for

and mainly is usually mining

projects to get access to resources.

DIGGING HOLES:

You can relate to the destruction of the rainforest in

the story begins in 1982 whe countries

couldn't pay their debts any more

and the result is that Latin American coutries

generally stopped paying because they said

we're already paying all of the balance

of payments surplus we have to the banks

we don't have any money to import,

to sustain living standards

we don't have money to import, to

build new factories to pay the debt

so the IMF at that point said:

Don't go bankrupt! You have an option, you

can begin to sell off the public domain

you have plenty of assets to sell to pay us

you can sell off your water rights, your forests, your

subsoil mineral resources, you can sell us your oil rights

and so Brazil, Argentina and other countries began

to sell off their resources to private investors

and private investors bought

these resources on credit.

MARINA SILVA.

- FORMER MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT, BRAZIL

RAQUEL TITSON-QUEIROZ.

- ENVIRONMENTAL POLICE OFFICER IBAMA

ENITO BEATA - SAWMILL OWNER

They're cutting down the rainforest,

they're emptying out the economy

they're turning it to a hole in the ground to repay

the bankers, that's the financial buisness plan

that's how it ends up because the

bankers goal is take their money

and begin digging holes in another

country and empyting out that country

that's the global financial system.

The economists say: f you clearcut the forest,

take the money, and put it in the bank

you can make 6 or 7%.

If you clearcut the forest, put it into

Malysia or smth you can make 30 or 40%.

So who cares whever you keep the forest,

cut it down, put the money somewhere else

when those forests are gone, put it in fish,

the fish are gone, put it in computers.

Money doesn't stand for anything and money

now grows faster then the real world.

Conventional economics is

a form of brain damage.

DAVID SUZUKI - GENETICIST/ACTIVIS Economics is so fundamentally

disconnected from the real world

it is destructive.

If you take an introductory

course in economics

the professor in the first lecture

will show a slide of the economy

and it looks very impressive, you know, raw material,

extraction processes, manufacture, wholesale, retails,

with arrows going back and forward

and they try to impress you because

they think that they know damn well.

Economics is not a science but they're trying to fool

us into thinking that it is a real science. It's not.

Economics is a set of values that they then try

to use mathematical equations and all that stuff

and pretend that it's a science.

But if you ask the economist in that

equation where do you put the ozone layer

where do you put the deep underground

aquafiers of fossil water

where do you put topsoil or

biodiversity, their answer is:

Oh, those are externalities.

Well, then you might as well be on Mars.

That economy is not based in

anything like a real world.

It's life that filters

water in hydrologic cycle

it's microrganisms in the soil that create

the soil that we can grow our food in

nature performs all kinds of services

insects fertilize all

of the flowering plants

these services are vital to

the health of the planet

economist call these externalities.

That's nuts!

Unlimited ecoomic progress in the world of

finite natural resources doesn't make sense.

It's a pattern that is bound to colapse

and we keep seeing it collapsing

but then build it up because there

are these strong vested interests

we must have buisness as usual

and you know, you got, the arms manufacturers,

the petroleum industry, pharmaceutical industry

and all of this feeding into helping

to create corrupt governemnents

who are putting the future

of their own people at risk.

You can imagine lilies growing in a pond.

Lilies grow very rapidly,

they double every day

they're going to cover the whole surface and there

won't be any way for the fish getting oxygen

and all the life is going

to die in the pond

that's how rapidly things can grow.

One day you are half full of lilies

and the next day you're dead.

You could say that today we're at the

point in which the lily pond is half full

the life is being snuffed out of national

economies and the debt goes on doubling

how long can it do it.

It has one day to go.

All the civilizations of the past and, I

think our own, only seem to be doing well

when they're expaning, when the population is

growing, when the industrial output is growing

and when the cities are spreading out.

Eventualy you reach the point at which

the population has overrun everything.

The cities have expanded over the farmland

the people at the bottom begin to starve and

the people at the top loose their legitimacy

and so you get hunger, you get revolution.

Now, one scary thing about

the moment we're in is that

for the first time there

is kind of only one system

so if the whole thing goes down, you won't have

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