Apart from feeling warm and fuzzy I couldn’t find any answers to how the third world can use its resources so that its population is fed, watered, clothed, housed and free of malaria.

Gee i think the removal of capitalist plunder of the third world would be a good start. And maybe less profit motivation by the west. We produce enough now to feed and clothe the world yet we would rather throw it away.

oakeshott country Says:

As Trevor says: He is past the point where this causes him offense.
I believe that someone having a “funny name” does not excuse the implications of your question.

Did i said he had a funny name? In fact for everyones information i have only seen him as Trevor until someone said about Genghis then i noticed his last name. As i have a vast library on both political and Indian religious topics i then became interested in his ancestors. To hint that i am racist is very disappointing as anyone who knows me can tell you i am the total opposite.

Apart from feeling warm and fuzzy I couldn’t find any answers to how the third world can use its resources so that its population is fed, watered, clothed, housed and free of malaria.

To me it does however, indicate the nationalism/xenophobia implicit in much of the Green Movement in the west. My argument is this: People of the western world are the most affluent in the history of the world. They have achieved this affluence with a complete disregard to the environment and plundering of the natural wealth of the rest of the world – Europe no longer has significant forests and has the greatest population of all the continents.

Meanwhile, the third world, despite its inherent wealth of resources, lives with endemic disease, a lack of food, fuel and drinking water. The green movements response is to attempt to stop the third world developing – e.g. Don’t cut down trees in Brazil so that you can feed your family, Don’t dam that river in India for irrigation, power and clean drinking water because you’ll upset the tigers who live in the area, Don’t have more than two children – even though infant mortality is shamefully high and children are an investment for your old age.

In fact don’t do what I do but do what I say and don’t expect us to share our wealth because of your restraint. Greens as watermelons? More like fascists for mine.

Presumably as he is a member of parliament, he must be an Australian. (and I thought Port Macquarie was stuck in the 1950s) Geez!

I meant no offense to Trevor i am actually interested in peoples heritage etc. I gathered he is Australian and was speaking about his ancestors.
No Hanson here

Interesting that this question keeps coming up…indeed it has come up throughout my life….I’ve got past the point where it causes me any offence.

Below is one of seventeen sets of questions put to me by my local paper, together with my reply…it deals with a similar theme.

Read on, Trev:

2. What is the origin of your family name, Khan? Do you have Indian/Pakistani heritage? If so, to what extent did that influence your upbringing?

My paternal grandfather Fazzee Gulam Mohammed Khan, came from the Punjab, northern India in the 1890’s. My grandmother Grace Kelhear, married him late in his life and bore him a number of children. Fazzee passed away in 1944, well before my birth.

It is safe to say that my father’s memory of his early life are not entirely happy. My, father at least in part, defines himself by reference to the circumstances in which he grew up, that is as an anglo-Indian, living in fairly straightened circumstances, during the depression years in Surrey Hills, Sydney.

From my perspective the experiences of my father reflect on to me.

http://chesterfieldevans.com/opinion/?m=200704