Governments and corporations cling to the belief that the world economy can grow forever, even as resources are depleted and carbon emissions keep increasing.
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Nigeria: Cocoa costs the life of the gorillas
Who likes chocolate that has been destroyed by forests where gorillas live?
This is exactly what is happening in Nigeria: cocoa farms invade the last retreat of the endangered primates.
The overexploitation is fueled by the lust of chocolate lovers in Europe. But the forest of the gorillas must not die for sweets.
Cross River gorillas are the most endangered great ape in Africa with only 200-300 individuals remaining in the wild.
Nigeria gives rise to despair and hope at the same time: the country’s forests are almost completely destroyed, 96 percent have disappeared. The state of Cross River in the southeast is a ray of hope. The forests are among the most biodiverse in the world and even offer gorillas a habitat.
But Cross River also loses forest: In 2017, more than 16,000 hectares were destroyed. That is four times more than last year. The main causes…
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Reposting: Exxon – Don’t Have Children – Problem solved
WASHINGTON — As his coal mining company hurtled into bankruptcy, Robert E. Murray, the former chief executive, paid himself $14 million, handed his successor a $4 million bonus and earmarked nearly $1 million for casting doubt on man-made climate change, new court filings show.
The company, Murray Energy, filed for bankruptcy protection in October, reporting $2.7 billion in debts and more than $8 billion in obligations, in large part to pension and health care plans for workers. But those debts appear to have done little to scale back the spending habits of Mr. Murray, a prominent supporter of President Trump who helped engineer dozens of climate change and environmental rollbacks over the past three years.
The 79-year-old coal executive has been a vocal denier of the established science that human activities like the burning of coal are causing climate change and once warned that his dying industry…
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Women call for solidarity with Rojava: One World, One Fight
“Today, as people struggle against repressive rule in their own countries, they understand what the Kurdish movement long taught: that resistance is life. This international solidarity gives all our struggles hope.”
- ANF – DEVRİŞ ÇİMEN
- BRUSSELS
- Friday, 20 Dec 2019, 13:44
Various women from Slovenia, Pakistan, Hungary, Croatia, England, USA and Poland show solidarity with the revolution in Rojava and condemn the illegal war of aggression and occupation of Turkey on Northeast Syria since 9 October. They draw parallel between the attack on Rojava and attack on the achievements of the liberation struggle of women worldwide. The revolution in Rojava was marked by the liberation of women and inspires many women in the world. In this context, the following women have spoken for the ANF.
Violeta Tomić, Member of the National Assembly Slovenia – LEVICA (Slovene: Levica = The Left, its political party), Ljubljana, Slovenia
In my hands, I hold the book: »Revolution in Rojava, Democratic autonomy and Women’s liberation in Syrian Kurdistan«, written by Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga and Michael Knapp.
I am most fascinated about the social experiment of direct democracy, which developed in multi-ethnic and multi-religious areas of Northern Syria during
the Civil War, representing a peaceful democratic alternative for Syria and the Middle East, an alternative for Syria and the whole world.
It represents the possibility of overcoming conflicts, religious, national, and political, which maintain permanent war, and the destructive interventions of regional and foreign military.
In Rojava, you create a model of calm coexistence and self-determination for all communities of the Syrian mosaic. It is priceless that at the core of this project you recognize the liberation of women and deconstruction of patriarchal social patterns and institutions.
With great honor and pride, I accepted the invitation to join demonstrations in Budapest last October in support of revolution in Rojava and to protest against Erdogan’s visit to Orban and Hungary.
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Biosphere Collapse?! How to plant 1000 trees Before you Die
Just some notes.. Planting trees isn’t as easy as I thought. I plant maybe 10 a year and most of them die coz I forgot to water in the Spanish summer heat. But with every climate report more catastrophic and convincing (see below) it seems a basic idea to find out how to plant 1000 trees before I die, at least for the kids sake.
Of course trees just store CO2, and if someone burns or bulldozes my trees I’ve wasted my time. And the science of forest carbon sinks is a welter of contradictions. But all agree that the bigger the forest , the more carbon it stores, especially when growing.
Many researchers claim that reforesting the billions of hectares of degraded, abandoned or arid land could stop Climate Chaos for a generation. Okay, dismantling capitalism is the real answer, but time is running out. (It’s not a betrayal, just as a revolutionary Union accepts a wage rise!) So let’s just make the forests bigger! Indeed the rise in CO2 and nitrogen will help them grow!
First problem is where to plant. Okay, we can put a few trees in gardens and vacant lots, the more the better, and they say don’t forget native plants and bushes that are just as important. But to plant a lot of trees, even living in the country, confronts us with capitalist property rights, and even if you can find the last plot of common land it’s pretty sure someone will grab it or let loose their fucking goats.
One answer is to organize, and meanwhile get those first seedlings going in pots. There’s lots of institutions looking for volunteer tree planters.. most of them pretty capitalist IMHO. Look out for Greenwashers and polluters angling for carbon credit cash!
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video:Get out and Dance! And we will let you pass .. “El que baila pasa” by Kumbia Kaos
Kumbia Kombativa en solidaridad con las revueltas del pueblo chileno. “El que baila pasa” es una nueva forma de protesta en Chile donde l@s manifestantes que bloquean el trafico de los vehiculos instan a sus conductor@s a salir y bailar para mostrar su apoyo a las protestas si quieren seguir avanzando con su coche.
Kumbia Kombativa in solidarity with the revolts of the Chilean people. “The one who dances can pass” is a new form of protest in Chile where the protesters who block the traffic of the vehicles urge their drivers to get out and dance to show their support for the protests if they want to continue moving forward with their car.
Las autoridades aseguran que se trata de una humillacion violenta y han establecido penas de hasta 541 dias de prision para quienes paren el transito de esta manera.
Bolsonaro invites indigenous to ‘abandon miserable life’, to Mine and Ranch the Amazon, under New Law
photo..Amazon: A gold mine swallowed their village. This tribe is here to take it back
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says bill to open indigenous reserves to mining, agriculture ready
partly by Cecilia Jamasmie , shared with thanks
Bolsonaro has vowed to assimilate the country’s 800,000 indigenous people — less than 1% of the total population — into Brazilian society.
“The Brazilian president has called on native communities to be included in society, alluding that they have been unfairly forced to live apart in misery.” That is, stop being yourself; some lazy, lousy and miserable savages, and become citizens of the society of capitalism.
(Image: Katiabraga | Pixabay.)
Bolsonaro says it, but this racist, ethnocentric, simplifying and energetically false vision of this type of societies has many people disagreeing and the bill will hopefully have big problems in Congress in February.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that a controversial bill allowing mining, agriculture and cattle farms on protected indigenous reserves was ready to be sent to Congress for consideration.
Bolsonaro again claimed indigenous culture, which has cared for the Amazon for millenia, is mere superstition and that they are kept in poverty and forced to be separate and invited them to integrate, ranch cattle and mine the disappearing forest.
This follows his UN intervention in the same vein, which drew the following reaction.. “Bolsonaro’s speech is outrageous, undemocratic, racist, and deeply violent against the indigenous peoples of Brazil and the great indigenous leader Raoni, internationally recognized for his contribution to the preservation of the Amazon.
