WATCH: Impacts of Industrial Renewables in Queensland
December 4, 2023 Image Source: The Transition to Extinction Steven Nowakowski...
Climate Warriors and Flagships from Hell
"There should be encampments and occupations in and near Middlesborough and Hull. There should be. If the spirit of Earth First and actual environmentalism was with us, perhaps there would be."
The Militarisation & Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict
"Far from addressing climate change and conflict, the market-based approaches emerging from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and subsequent International Conventions risk intensifying global land conflict and environmental devastation, which build on the violence and history of political forests."
May the Earth Tremble at Its Core
" In order to defend what we are, our path and learning process have been consolidated by strengthening our collective decision-making spaces, employing national and international juridical law as well as peaceful and civil resistance, and casting aside the political parties that have only brought death, corruption, and the buying off of dignity. "
‘Trespassing’, Collecting Honey Among Charges Against Nagarahole Tribal People
"Between 2001 and 2011, as many as 192 cases were registered against tribal communities living in and around Nagarahole National Park. But their “offences”, which include trespassing forest land, collecting honey and growing ginger in the forest, are, in fact, their rights enshrined in the Forest Rights Act."
Sep 04
20145
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
McKibben’s Divestment Tour – Brought to You by Wall Street [Part V of an Investigative Report] [A Thinking Person’s Nightmare]
"And while a theatre performance worthy of the Palau de la Música Catalana was playing to a sold-out audience (quite literally), Ceres was expanding its tentacles throughout the globe."
The (Illusory) Green Economy – A Critical Analysis by Dr.Joanna Boehnert
The Indigenous People’s Kari-Oca 2 Declaration describes the UN’s GEP as ‘a continuation of colonialism… a perverse attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments to cash in on Creation by privatizing, commodifying and selling off the Sacred and all forms of life and the sky’ (2012, p.1-2). The programme of re-visioning of the commons as sets of commodities ripe for exploitation is diametrically contrary to the environmental rhetoric used to sell the project.
[TIPNIS] Alvaro Garcia Linera: Geopolitics of the Amazon – Part IV
"4. The Amazonian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as a group, some of which have created over the last two decades a clientelistic network of indigenous leaders through which they express the corporate environmentalist discourse in the various communities. Possessing fine humanitarian intentions — and good salaries for such missions — they form a small army that is ideologically the disseminator of the right-wing environmentalist discourse, and economically the material expression of an environmental capitalist accumulation."
Dec 14
20120
CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, Democracy Centre, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
[TIPNIS] Alvaro Garcia Linera: Geopolitics of the Amazon – Part II
But when it involves business, as in the purchase of timber, chestnuts, alligator skins or livestock, this bourgeoisie is capable of subordinating its racist prejudices to market logic and establishing mechanisms of market domination through which it has always considered the indigenous peoples as its vassals or inferiors. This mercantile “generosity” has meant that the relations of domination over the indigenous peoples have been reworked and formally subsumed under capitalist development.