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‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

"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"

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."

How Circular is the Circular Economy?

"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."

Well Funded Traditional Owner Splinter Group Continues To Fight Over Land Use Agreement With Adani Mining Company

"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."

Destroy Here and Destroy There: The Double Exploitation of Biodiversity Offsets

"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."

Greenwashing Capitalism: Conservation’s Cosy Relationship with Corporations

"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."

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. "

Water is More Valuable than Gold

As the report concludes, mining projects often perpetuate global inequalities, with companies from the “Global North” extracting resources from the “Global South.”

WKOG Op-Ed: Mining for Blood

"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. "

How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia

Down Where the Death Squads Live Counterpunch October 29, 2013 by Daniel...