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#13 Tim Marshall | Prisoners Of Geography, The Taiwan Question & The Arctic

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Is the Economic Aspect Worth the Environmental Damage?

I think a good example of an infrastructure project that they're involved in that might highlight this the best is the now it hasn't been built, but the Chinese Nicaraguan canal. We'd look at that and say if it was a British private firm behind it. People be like wait a minute. Is the economic upside worth the catastrophic environmental damage you're going to do there. And I just don't have that because it's closed society. So we're both treading slightly on dangerous ground isn't it?

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