Walled World

OK, I admit it: I am a fan of those graphics. Here is another one that shows how walls divide the world and where the most ‘secure’ borders are located. (via TD):

Accelerated through the fear from the attacks of 9/11 and all what followed, the so called ‘Western Society’ is constructing the greatest wall ever build on this planet. On different building sites on all five inhabitable continents, walls, fences and high-tech border surveillance are under construction in order to secure the citizens and their high quality of life within this system. The fall of the Berlin Wall was described as the historical moment that marks the demolition of world’s last barrier between nation states. Yet it took the European Union only six years to create with the Schengen Agreement in 1995 a new division only 80km offset to the east of Berlin.

walledworld

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2 Comments

  1. Posted August 18, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    Very good image, and very disturbing at the same time.

    Keep on the info-graphic-blogging! Often provides more food-for-thought than many words.

  2. Posted August 18, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    Does this imply that we should be against secure borders?

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