By moshe dyan
sri lankan, You hurt me, I’m an economist. You said,
“O.K my theory is this- the greenhous effect will come to Canada before Sri Lanka therefore all Canadians must learn to build igloo’s for protection.”
You are wrong. The greenhouse effect is going to be a blessing than an evil to canada! it will increase the arable land and other productive land in canada! in fact canadians are already preparing for it! however, it will affect SL pretty badly!!
however, i agree with your “theory” that protecting the country is MUCH MORE important than protecting the economy. Tibet is a good example of a booming economy without a country! Tibetans are leaving it in thousands although it is a booming economy in which they have no stake in! the same can happen to SL if we (as usual) mix-up our priorities.
having said that, the economy has a big say in protecting the nation. if the economy collapses, there won’t be enough resourses to fight the war. also consider what i said in a previous post – Tamil Diaspora’s economy is now bigger than the SL economy! this says ALOT about the relative power of the two parties at war and what is GOING TO COME.
therefore we MUST consider the economy as well in a war. from an economic POV, the war MUST be won ASAP. ASAP is not equal to FAST but as soon as possible. USD 1.5bn / USD 26 bn = 5.7% this puts us in a very very bad situation + in record books. if this continues for another few years, yes we are stuffed.
unfortunately the financiers of the SL war have no say in the war and have no credible info. on what the govt; is doing with their money! if SL govt. was a company, it’s directors will be long gone. However, the ECONOMIST magazine had in the past published many anti-SL stuff. So the bottomline is while the war is more important than the economy, for the war to proceed there should be a good economy AND the SL economy that has been vandalised by the war/surrender/stalemate must be salvaged soon if we are to face the MANY challenges the pro-LTTE diaspora is going to throw at us.
Agree? I think you will disagree.
