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Stealth Game: “Community” Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya

“COMMUNITY” CONSERVANCIES DEVASTATE LAND & LIVES IN NORTHERN KENYA"

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

"Larry Thomas, Lew Freeman and Ron Liesemer, former industry executives, helped oil companies out of the first plastic crisis by getting people to believe something the industry knew then wasn't true: That most plastic could be and would be recycled."

We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe

"We should support the recommendations of the 250 scientists and medical doctors who signed the 5G Appeal that calls for an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G."

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin. It’s Underwater—and the Consequences are Unimaginable.

"We’re about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. We’re going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once it’s gone, it isn’t coming back."

Between the Devil and the Green New Deal

"There is no solution to the climate crisis which leaves capitalism’s compulsions to growth intact. And this is what the Green New Deal, a term coined by that oily neoliberal, Thomas Friedman, doesn’t address. It thinks you can keep capitalism, keep growth, but remove the deleterious consequences. The death villages are here to tell you that you can’t. No roses will bloom on that bush."

Trees Don’t Grow on Money – or Why You Don’t Get to Rebel Against Extinction

"These may sound like goals that any ethically rational person could wholeheartedly endorse, and yet, as a recent critical study by Cory Morningstar has demonstrated, what their pursuit entails does not necessarily correspond to what people might imagine."

WATCH: Biomass – an Ecological Facade | A Massive Threat to the World’s Forests

Keep in mind while watching this film that while Dogwood Alliance may publicly denounce Enviva's biomass (the burning of trees) practices, Dogwood Alliance has partnered with Coca-Cola along with other corporations and NGOs to create the Carbon Canopy Group - a coalition "that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services" and "offset" pollution via carbon credits.

FLASHBACK | Conservation International: Privatizing Nature, Plundering Biodiversity

"The terms “greenwash” and “corporate front group” seem inadequate to describe Conservation International. Perhaps, as the Papua New Guinean critique puts it, Conservation International is “no more and no less a ‘non government' organisation than is General Electric or Microsoft.” Perhaps it is time to consider a global campaign to expose this ‘green' giant's true colours and put a stop to its operations."

FB ALERT & RELEASE: Protest Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network’s Censoring of Facebook Criticism of Their Support for Primary Forest Logging

ECOLOGICAL INTERNET PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE and FACEBOOK ALERT! Protest Greenpeace and Rainforest...

DEFINITELY THE WRONG KIND OF GREEN : Convention on Biodiversity GREENWASH

Partnership between Airbus and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity Announcement:...