14 November 2013

State Capacity vis-a-vis Climate Change

Reference to Rappler's news:


Source: SciLogs
Politicking aside, what Mar says here is true! Precisely my point. The Philippine government and the entire Filipino citizenry need all the help we can get from the international community. No government, particularly of a poor country like the Philippines, is prepared and equipped enough to confront the climate change monster and the sufferings it inflicts on human beings. Why too much stress on 'state capacity' and so little on the insurmountable gravity of climate change-induced disasters? 

Instead of vilifying poor country governments' inefficient responses to disasters, why is CNN not asking the most fundamental of questions that implicate the establishment that US mainstream media, including the CNN, are protecting: the USA's military-industrial complex and the ecologically-degrading capitalist mode of production it promotes?


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In fairness to the report of Anderson Cooper, do check it out again. He never said categorically that there was 'no government presence': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tWq59PcJM



Let's stop all these unnecessary bashings and demonising and propaganda with the obvious intent of advancing a particular political-electoral agenda for 2016. This is for our brethren in Leyte and the Visayas; this is for our common good!

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