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Trinidad & Tobago: The Price of Progress

Categories: Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Development, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Environment, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Law, Music, Politics, Religion, Science

Maximilian Forte [1], writing at Review of the Indigenous Caribbean Center, posts a video of Trinidadian calypsonian King Austin's song Progress, which he calls “a critique of the ideology and practice of progress, from the vantage points of environmental unsustainability, exploitation, inequality, and the resultant social strife.”