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The '''World Bank''' is thought by many people to be the single most destructive institution on Earth (the [[WTO]] and [[IMF]] and [[UN Security Council]] and [[currency markets]] and [[commodity markets]] and [[television]] and [[Internet]] being competing [[bad thing]]s that many think are worse).
The '''World Bank''' is thought by many people to be the single most destructive institution on Earth (the [[WTO]], [[IMF]], [[BIS]], [[UN Security Council]], [[currency markets]], [[commodity markets]], [[television]] and [[Internet]] being competing [[bad thing]]s that many think are worse).


The World Bank approves and funds extremely destructive projects in [[China]] and [[Congo]] and [[Brazil]], which expand roads that lead to [[deforestation]] and [[extinction]] and [[new virus]]es that [[jump species]] into humans and kill large numbers of people (sometimes using [[factory farm]]s as incubators on the way, though the new virus almost always comes from a newly damaged forest area or wild bird/animal population).  The damage done by these projects is incredible, astonishing even, reducing [[nature's services]] to all people.
The World Bank approves and funds extremely destructive projects in [[China]] and [[Congo]] and [[Brazil]], which expand roads that lead to [[deforestation]] and [[extinction]] and [[new virus]]es that [[jump species]] into humans and kill large numbers of people (sometimes using [[factory farm]]s as incubators on the way, though the new virus almost always comes from a newly damaged forest area or wild bird/animal population).  The damage done by these projects is incredible, astonishing even, reducing [[nature's services]] to all people.  For those people killed, of course, the services provided are now near zero (some space for the body or [[atmospheric CO2 absorption capacity]] for the bashes) and maybe this helps increase [[GDP]] - all the '''Bank''' cares about.


Former economists at the Bank have sometimes left their jobs to take part in protests against it, [[Joseph Stiglitz]] being the most obvious example.
Former economists at the Bank have sometimes left their jobs to take part in protests against it, [[Joseph Stiglitz]] being the most obvious example.
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