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Does the crisis justify it all? - Le trésor de Cassandre

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Wed, 29/05/2013 - 19:00 to 21:30

 

The crisis has become an obsession. Social, educational and scientific policies had been slashed. Now economic activities that were considered unethical or anti-ecological are presented as an efficient way out of the crisis. But does it justify the long-term destruction and pollution that will be the inevitable consequences?

 

Le trésor de Cassandre

Yorgos Avgeropoulos, 57', 2012

With the goal of preventing impending ecological disaster, the locals of Chalcidique, a region rich in precious metals, have worked for years to oppose mining projects. But now because of the economic crisis, 78,000 hectares of land has been bought up by a Canadian multinational Eldorado Gold.

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