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Month: August 2018

Week 34 & 35: Blood-soaked crime scenes, objective violence and fake news

Posted on 29th August 20186th September 2018 by Benno Hansen

“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…

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Week 33: Eco terrorism, tax havens, and inequality

Posted on 20th August 20186th September 2018 by Benno Hansen

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…

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Week 32: Oil tanks, water is power, and nuclear is expensive

Posted on 13th August 20186th September 2018 by Benno Hansen

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. […]…

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Week 31: Heat wave, refugees, palm oil, cocaine, and murder

Posted on 1st August 20186th September 2018 by Benno Hansen

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…

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21 Dec

Global food industry on course to drive rapid habitat loss – research https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/21/global-food-industry-to-drive-rapid-habitat-loss-research?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

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Secretive ‘gold rush’ for deep-sea mining dominated by handful of firms https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/09/secretive-gold-rush-for-deep-sea-mining-dominated-by-handful-of-firms?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

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16 Dec

The "massive and constantly updated stream of data has proven useful in monitoring the time-sensitive aspects of the escalation of social unrest in the past, demonstrating potential for identifying emerging security threats in the wake of climate change" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/big-data-could-help-anticipate-violence-and-put-peace-in-its-way/

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