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Month: July 2011

Watch FUEL

Posted on 29th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11 year journey around the world to find solutions to America’s addiction to oil. A shrinking economy, a failing auto industry, rampant unemployment, an out-of-control national debt, and an insatiable demand for energy weigh heavily on all of us. Fuel shows us the way out of the…

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UN Security Council concerned climate change may aggravate threats to peace

Posted on 24th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

On the initiative of small island states, Germany, Britain, the US and other members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) climate change was this week linked to conflict. Steiner and Ki-moon testified to the rationale: “There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security in economic,…

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I had a full page in a Danish newspaper this week

Posted on 24th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

Page 18 of Dagbladet Information Thursday 21st of July 2011. If you can read and understand Danish proceed to the original online version: information.dk / Økokrig – alle krige handler om naturens ressourcer. If you don’t understand Danish you can try the Google Translate version.

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While everyone’s on holiday: Ghosts of the past, crises of the present and warnings for the future

Posted on 20th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

From the distant and near past The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode. oil and fuel leaks could devastate coastal communities and environments. NOAA is taking an inventory of more than 30,000 coastal shipwrecks. It has narrowed the worst-threat list to 233 vessels….

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Ecowar 2.1

Posted on 11th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

Don’t panic, you’re at Ecowar. I merely changed the good old custom tweaked and heavily bloated design for a fresh standard one. I’m also trying out some new stuff. Some stories develop too fast for a one-man blog to follow. But on the new page Inside the wire, under the radar the job is done…

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Wangari Maathai: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight.”

Posted on 8th July 2011 by Benno Hansen

Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you: [15:39] Protecting forests is extremely important […] also very important for conflict […] many of the…

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Water Wars mapped, Ecowar Battlefields map updated

Posted on 2nd July 2011 by Benno Hansen

June 2011 both the British Guardian News and the Arab Al Jazeera published world maps of “water wars”. My own Ecowars Battlefields map have been updated accordingly. Below I take a quick look at the main news and features of the two new maps. Al Jazeera: Traditional map with pins at hotspots, links to storiesEssentially…

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Ecowar_BHansenBenno Hansen@Ecowar_BHansen·
3 Dec

"Vand er efterhånden ligesom guld. Folk er så desperate, at de vil slås for det"

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18 Nov

"Those who made their money peddling fossil fuels—the execs and shareholders holding funds—owe something to those who got hurt. It’s not... all that different from the demand for reparations." - @Tamaraity
& @billmckibben @350 #ClimateJustice #MakeThemPay https://t.co/eQ7djQT1qw

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12 Nov

Psychological warfare on their own population

JC Cooper@CoopwrJ

@MichaelEMann As expected, RW media doubles down on blaming Greenies for #AUSTRALIAFIRES. https://t.co/oMZUDUidZT

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3 Nov

"Few land conflict-related killings in #Brazil result in convictions ... According to Brazil’s pastoral land commission, a rural violence watchdog, of 157 land conflict killings in Maranhão state between 1985 and 2017, just five cases went to court."
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2 Nov

The Saudis target Yemen’s rural livelihood, bombing farms, food systems, markets, water treatment facilities, and even agricultural extension offices. In urban areas, fishing boats and food processing and storage facilities were targeted.
#WarCrimes
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