Resource conflict and ecosystem diplomacy in bullet point updates
“The Pacific Ocean off Central America remains a blood-soaked environmental crime scene” writes Post Magazine in a sad report on illegal shark fishing by Chinese fleets. In one case, the Ecuadorean navy caught a Chinese freighter carrying 150 tonnes of dead shark. In China, the price of shark fins are sometimes higher than the price…
Firefighters in California are battling huge wildfires and every child can do the math. To little surprise, July turned out to be the hottest month on record in the state. But the wildfires a not linked to global warming. No, they are caused by legal actions of “environmental terrorist groups” says US Interior Secretary Ryan…
Don’t buy oil. The price of oil on the world marked dipped last week. This should worry investors and oil companies more than it does, argues The Economist: “oil firms are assuming that decarbonisation will be limited and are thus overstating their assets. […] Oil firms could face a sticky mess of forced writedowns. […]…
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, an unprecedented global heatwave has baked us for two months, and I’m rebooting Ecowar with the first of what I intend to be a weekly roundup of atrocities. Buckle up. First of all, this heat wave is due to climate change says the World Weather Attribution. No, any single weather event…