TRINIDADIANS would swear that the world is gripped by "blight", a toxic mix of negative forces or "spirit lashes" that have us reeling every-which-way. Those who believe in the biblical end-times would counter that God is angry with man, hence the confluence of wars, pestilence, human misery and harsh economic times. Whatever the reasons for the seemingly intractable problems that have engulfed the world, I choose to adopt calypsonian Blakie's refrain, "Ah never see t'ing so yet!" First came the economic recession that started in the seat of unbridled capitalism, the USA. Some might argue that the many wars America initiated were a precursor to the economic contagion that quickly spread from the sub-prime crisis to a global meltdown. That's the typical chicken and egg situation. Now, out of the sty comes a "swine flu" pandemic, threatening us with another doomsday scenario.
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As if the AIDS epidemic or the bird-flu scare weren't bad enough, man now faces possible extermination from a virus that began with the much maligned pig. Whoever or whatever triggered these multiple crises, reality is before we can deal with one deadly threat to civilisation as we have known it for centuries, another crops up to compound our woes. Except for Prime Minister Manning, whose periscope shows an "economic blip" that will soon dissipate, most economists, analysts and agencies that monitor the world's economic health are not that optimistic. The World Bank, the European Commission, the International Energy Agency and several other institutions have all revised their projections for recovery. They first said that by the end of 2009 we should see signs of a reversal of the decline that started in 2007 and infected the world by mid-2008.Full Story: Food and water before oil and gas - Trinidad & Tobago Express
