The Arab Spring and Climate Change
The globalisation of disaster. A set of essays about chinese drought, global warming, and the arab spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsf81fHt0_c
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The globalisation of disaster. A set of essays about chinese drought, global warming, and the arab spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsf81fHt0_c
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“The Arab Spring and Climate Change” does not argue that climate change caused
the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world over the past two years. But the essays collected in this slim volume make a compelling case that the consequences of climate change are stressors that can ignite a volatile mix of underlying causes that erupt into revolution."
Cake = owned & eaten
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I think it was the USA CIA - they want regime change all over the middle east - they fucked it in Iraq and Afghanistan, killed over a million people and cost trillions. They were not going to do that again so pushing the govts out via social media is very cheap in terms of lives and money.
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I caught the end of a program last night on BBC4
about this Iraqi Professor's work to try and repair the damage Saddam did to the Iraqi marshlands, his idea being to rejuvenate the area and make it a tourist destination, which was quite a strange concept given the film crew's security contingent was up to twelve vehicles long at times
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about this Iraqi Professor's work to try and repair the damage Saddam did to the Iraqi marshlands, his idea being to rejuvenate the area and make it a tourist destination, which was quite a strange concept given the film crew's security contingent was up to twelve vehicles long at times
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Say what you will but it's undeniably a tourist hotspot for London and Parisian youths.
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Wilfred Thesiger's book "The Marsh Arabs"
is really good. About his travels in the Marshes of Iraq when they were still whole. Saddam did indeed destroy a lot of the habitat.
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is really good. About his travels in the Marshes of Iraq when they were still whole. Saddam did indeed destroy a lot of the habitat.
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It was quite a touching documentary from what I saw of it
the guy had a genuine passion for the area, and it's wildlife. I really hope he succeeds
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the guy had a genuine passion for the area, and it's wildlife. I really hope he succeeds
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Sorry about that, I leant on my trackpad and used the mouse at the same time
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Blackadder ref incoming...
I think it was a lot like the time a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry...it sort of kicked it all off but didn't really have much to do with the real reasons. Which was probably power, money and oil (rather oil = power and money)
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I think it was a lot like the time a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry...it sort of kicked it all off but didn't really have much to do with the real reasons. Which was probably power, money and oil (rather oil = power and money)
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