16th May 2005, 08:03 PM
The question i suppose is more like, how can we in the western world refuse another country a shot at civilisation just because of the archaeology.
India for example has discovered massive coal reserves and fully intends to exploit it, but they intend building a whole series of 1960's style power stations. we all know the amount of environmental damage that these can do, but how can we say to india that they can't do it? after all we did, ok we have moved on from there but remember that a lot of the people living in these countries have no electric light in their homes and projects like this can redress this and more.
deep
India for example has discovered massive coal reserves and fully intends to exploit it, but they intend building a whole series of 1960's style power stations. we all know the amount of environmental damage that these can do, but how can we say to india that they can't do it? after all we did, ok we have moved on from there but remember that a lot of the people living in these countries have no electric light in their homes and projects like this can redress this and more.
deep