Whilst talking up its environmental agenda, the UK government continues to contribute £2bn per year (approx 1/3 of its total foreign aid budget) to the World Bank, according to a report in today's Guardian.
That’s the same World Bank which is still encouraging coal-fired power stations in developing countries, locking those countries into high carbon emissions for decades to come.
The same World Bank from which an indebted country can’t borrow money without having a domestic policy of privatising domestic water supplies – ie putting water into the hands of profiteers at a time when it is becoming more & more scarce.
The same World Bank which suppressed its own report which found that biofuels had driven food prices up 75%, so as not to embarrass the US government. (ref).
Sometimes it feels as if there are at least two alternative realities operating on this planet, which will simply never converge.
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