There’s a few simple reasons.
- No oil.
- Only really useful natural resources are: gold, nickel, vanadium, lithium, platinum group metals; none of these are in large quantities, nor is the world short of them…
- No major corporate footprint, thus no incentive for corporations to exert pressure on governments for action to protect their assets.
- Heavy metal pollution, toxic waste, recurring droughts. Not exactly a pleasant place to go vacation.
- 24.6% AIDS rate. Be careful what you touch and with what!
- Estimates of 100,000% inflation. Ouch!
- And yes, no oil.
Not much going for Zimbabweans is there? No wonder all we see are news reports and no action. If only we had an international organisation that would look out for these things, and organise civil and military expeditions to sort these kinds of disasters out. Oh wait ….
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