SHERPA SLAVERY
The tragic earthquake in Nepal reveals the continued mockery the wealthy make of those they ravage. With their expensive climbing equipment and their international rescue resources on hand they frolic amidst the peaks, savour Nepalese culture and return to their lands of plenty while those who hosted them, bore for them, guided and enabled them, return too but to their very different worlds.
The rich being plucked to safety were red carpeted to embassies, Ghurka army camps, airports and awaiting salvation while the Nepalese shivered, hungry, drinking contaminated water and facing icy unsheltered nights.
The rich world's Disasters Emergency Committee that sprang into operation assuages the conscience of the spectators, but is doing nothing to address the real issues of continued and systemic inequality that maintain the region's oppression.
Climbers are even now planning to scale Everest again, trampling over the poor on their ascent.
It would be better if a more pressing mountain height was scaled, that of achieving a fairer world.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/felipearaujo/climbing-season-in-nepal-at-risk-of-being-cancelled#.tjNwMoWz9
The rich being plucked to safety were red carpeted to embassies, Ghurka army camps, airports and awaiting salvation while the Nepalese shivered, hungry, drinking contaminated water and facing icy unsheltered nights.
The rich world's Disasters Emergency Committee that sprang into operation assuages the conscience of the spectators, but is doing nothing to address the real issues of continued and systemic inequality that maintain the region's oppression.
Climbers are even now planning to scale Everest again, trampling over the poor on their ascent.
It would be better if a more pressing mountain height was scaled, that of achieving a fairer world.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/felipearaujo/climbing-season-in-nepal-at-risk-of-being-cancelled#.tjNwMoWz9
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 2:24 PM
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