There was Baghdad in the aftermath of the US invasion – a frenzy of arson and looting that emptied libraries and museums. The factories got hit too. In 2004 I visited one that used to make refrigerators. Its workers had stripped it of everything valuable, then torched it so thoroughly that the warehouse was a sculpture of buckled sheet metal.Back then the people on cable news thought looting was highly political. They said this is what happens when a regime has no legitimacy in the eyes of the people. After watching for so long as Saddam Hussein and his sons helped themselves to whatever and whomever they wanted, many regular Iraqis felt they had earned the right to take a few things for themselves. But London isn't Baghdad, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, is hardly Saddam, so surely there is nothing to learn there.
Green.view: Conflict conservation | The Economist - 2 views
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La biodiversité à portée de fusil. Article invraisemblable faisant le lien entre la préservation de la nature et la multiplication des zones de guerre! Le tout dans The economist, journal de la city de londres... C'est tout simplement un exemple de la montée en puissance de l'éco-fascisme! Article non-signé d'ailleurs.
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C'est pas vraiment ce que dit l'article. Il dit plutôt que l'absence humaine dans les zones inaccessibles à cause de conflits peut avoir un effet préservateur, c'est quand même différent.
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Oui mais il est supposé que c'est grâce à la guerre que ces zones se portent bien. La guerre est plus efficace que l'unesco en gros.
Looting with the lights on | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian - 0 views
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Back then the people on cable news thought looting was highly political. They said this is what happens when a regime has no legitimacy in the eyes of the people. After watching for so long as Saddam Hussein and his sons helped themselves to whatever and whomever they wanted, many regular Iraqis felt they had earned the right to take a few things for themselves. But London isn't Baghdad, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, is hardly Saddam, so surely there is nothing to learn there.
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Argentina's mass looting was called el saqueo – the sacking. That was politically significant because it was the very same word used to describe what that country's elites had done by selling off the country's national assets in flagrantly corrupt privatisation deals, hiding their money offshore, then passing on the bill to the people with a brutal austerity package.
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