[lbo-talk] Chernobyl's silent graveyards

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 06:44:55 PDT 2006


"Steven L. Robinson" wrote:
> > But see the Chernobyl Paradox by Mary Mycio in the
> > most current print edition of Natural History (but
> > not on the magazine's web site). In that piece
> > Mycio describes how nature has prospered in the
> > region around Chernobyl, which is de facto the
> > largest human free area in Europe. ...

Chris Doss wrote:
> People have actually been moving back there.

this is not surprising, at least for the poorest folks in the old USSR area. there are low real estate values (maybe even free land, de facto if not de jure). there is game to hunt and plants to harvest, if you don't mind a few mutants in the bunch. it may be possible to garner a subsistence living outside of capitalist social relations there. It's likely not the best place to live, but a capitalism-free zone? (and no bears!) -- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles



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