Hace poco hablábamos de los aranceles europeos a la importación de langostino tailandés. Johan Norberg nos aporta más información sobre las peculiares conexiones entre innovación industrial (subsididada) en la UE (¿como vender el nuevo Airbus?, parce que es demasiado caro como para que interese por su relación calidad/precio), aranceles a productos pesqueros (langostinos en este caso) y grupos conservacionistas occidentales que pretenden conservar en el "Tercer Mundo" lo que aquí ya hace tiempo que hemos destruido:
It’s hard to think up something worse than EU’s ultimatum that Thailand must buy Airbus planes or face scampi tariffs. But Naturskyddsföreningen – the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation – has. It says that we should stop buying scampi from Thailand and Indonesia whatever these countries do, since coastal scampi farming damage surrounding mangrove forests. It says that we should do it for their sake since those forests might give some protection against a tsunami.
In other words: To get minimal protection against a tsunami that might reappear in a hundred years or so, we should destroy one of Thailand’s most successful exports industries, that gives incomes and makes it possible for them to get the technology to fight not merely tsunamis, but also other disasters and poverty, hunger and disease.
