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[--Pete]

Hi,

Be it malfeasance (nice word, never used it before) or not, it surely is intentional. Such things don't happen by themselves. But the reason is money, as usual. It's about waste products that cannot be recycled in a 'economic viable' way, and our companies are expected to reduce costs so they can our keep prices low, not?

No. The way you phrase it, we're right back to the "big bad industrial nations" conspiracy theory. And that is what I've asked you to support, and you haven't. The reality, as I see it, is that some places have found a way to make a little money by scavenging. It's not good, but it's not *evil*. It's just part of the reality of an imperfect world.

But if you prefer to call it development aid, go ahead.

Don't put words in my mouth, I'm quite capable of speaking for myself.

Why should those people have to choose between those choices? If this is the way it's supposed to be, how come they didn't die out before we had so much waste?

Because we gave them, and continue to give them, the modern medicine that reduces the infant mortality rate by more than an order of magnitude. Combined with the old habits and customs, and the lack of an infrastructure, that results in an unsustainable population.

The point is that we created, or at least help to sustain this situation because it's better for us, and not for them. Simply because we *need* workforces with low demands for dirty jobs like this.

Again with the *we*! Who is this *we*? Our governments? Our industries? Some Committee to Poison Third Word Children? WHO?

Blaming individuals and organizations for market forces is ignorant and stupid. It leads to the idea that, somehow, these forces can be directly controlled. And that leads to aberrations such as communism with the types of results Eastern Europe has demonstrated all too well.

So, yeah, it is deplorable that kids are dying recycling toxic waste. #$%& happens. It's not a conspiracy, it's economics. The solution is not social reform, it's economic development. And there are no evil overlords, just harassed businessmen.

We agree on the facts. It's your socialist world view I deplore.

--Pete