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comes around. What you sow, you will reap!
l Ollie Barton, website comment
l Jacquelin Ramirez, website comment
Deadly denim
Ethiopia
Thanks for this very important article (“Deadly denim”, Making It issue 10). Every time I see someone wearing sandblasted jeans I get so angry. I suffer from asthma so I know what it is like to be unable to breathe properly like the workers who suffer from silicosis. People are dying, just so others in richer countries can look ‘cool’. People have to get real and realize that we are all responsible for what is going down. What goes around,
Ethiopia has suffered a great loss with the death of its greatest and most visionary leader ever! (“Ethiopia: Defining its own path”, Making It issue 6) But if you depend on some Ethiopian diaspora numbskulls around Washington DC and a few other places for your information about him, you will get a whole different picture. No surprise there, since they are basically those with connections to the former donothing Emperor, Haile Selassie, or the do-nothing-
right dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, who followed him, and who was forced to flee to Zimbabwe. Today’s Ethiopia has changed for the better, beyond recognition. The federal system of government that Meles Zenawi and his party have instituted is, luckily for Ethiopians, irreversible! If anyone doubts his popularity among Ethiopians, one only need witness the unprecedented degree of mourning the people are going through everywhere!
l Tekle Haileselassie, website comment
Zero waste
Your readers will be interested in On the Road to Zero Waste:
Successes and Lessons from Around the World, published by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, an alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations and individuals in over 90 countries. Zero waste is both a goal and a plan of action. The goal is to ensure resource recovery and protect natural resources by ending waste disposal in incinerators and landfills. The plan encompasses waste reduction, composting, recycling and reuse and changes in consumption habits and industrial redesign. But, just as importantly, zero waste is a revolution in the relationship between waste and people.
l Hannah Mathur, by email
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