PHLA11H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Supersonic Transport
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November 1971, people are dying in east bengal from lack of food, shelter, and medical care. At the government level, no government has given the sort of massive aid that would enable the refugees to survive for more than a few days. Britain has given rather more than most countries, 14,750,000 to date. Britain"s share of the non-recoverable development costs of the anglo-french. Concorde project has already surpassed 275,000,000, and on present estimates will reach 440,000,000. The implication is that the british government values a supersonic transport more than thirty times as highly as it values the lives of nine million refugees. Australia, on a per capita basis, is well up in the aid to bengal table. Australia"s aid, however, amounts to less than one-twelfth of the cost of sydney"s new opera house, standing at 65,000,000. The estimated cost for keeping the refugees alive for one year is 464,000,000.
