Sep 11
20200
Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Al Gore Bill McKibben Biofuels Ceres Divestment Faux Left George Monbiot Green Century Funds Green New Deal Josh Fox Militarism Mining Naomi Klein Planet of the Humans Rasmussen Foundation Rockefeller Foundation Sunrise Movement The Guardian The Solutions Project
"We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends." - Jeff Gibbs, director of "Planet of the Humans"
Dec 02
20190
Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Emerging Markets Forests Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Green New Deal Green New Deal industrial tree plantations (ITPs) Land Grabs Militarism Mining Natural Climate Solutions REDD UN-REDD ‘green grabs’ ‘water grabs’
"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."
"The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without destruction or waste. However, the concept only focuses on a small part of total resource use and does not take into account the laws of thermodynamics."
"They were bussed in and paid for at Adani’s considerable expense, while hundreds of the rightful W&J Traditional Owners refused to attend this sham meeting."
Aug 31
20171
biodiversity offsets Green Economy Indigenous Peoples infrastructure International Finance Corporation (IFC) mega-dams Mining monoculture plantations New Economy Patriarchy petroleum Racism World Bank
"Let us not forget that the dominant economic model, which is structurally racist and patriarchal, unloads almost all of its destruction, invasion and violence on indigenous peoples and peasant families, so as to keep exploiting, producing and accumulating profits."
Apr 05
20170
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy
Conservation Conservation International Goldman Sachs. IIED Mining neoliberalism The Nature Conservancy WBCSD
"Conservationists are turning a blind eye to their own past and to the working of neoliberal capitalism, showing a remarkable willingness to entertain future risks to biodiversity from the outworking of neoliberalism."
Nov 10
20160
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism carbon capture plans Dakota Pipeline dam projects Ecotourism EZLN femicide Forests Fracking INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS Mining National Indigenous Congress nvironmental services costs privatization Proyecto Integral Morelos solar farms Toluca-Naucalpan Highway wind farms
" 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. "
As the report concludes, mining projects often perpetuate global inequalities, with companies from the “Global North” extracting resources from the “Global South.”
Nov 12
20150
Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Consumerism Culture Mining Western Consumer Society Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"The most costly dependence on bringing our smartphones, computers, gaming systems, car circuitry and innumerous other equipment to market is the outlay of human lives through manipulation of labor in the Third World or Global South. "
Nov 02
20131
Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Imperialist Wars/Occupations
Banacol Chiquita Columbia Del Monte Dole Human Rights Watch Mining NATO Palm Oil
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