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Month: October 2018

Week 43: Climate rights violations, corrupted minds, and cute animals

Posted on 28th October 201828th October 2018 by Benno Hansen

When I think about our engagement in sub-Saharan Africa, in Somalia, in other places of the world, I see that climate change has already had a massive impact on population movement, on fertility of land. It’s moving the border between pastoralist and agriculturalist. […] It’s very obvious that some of the violence that we are…

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Week 42: Chainsaw, murder, water wars, and Banksy

Posted on 21st October 201821st October 2018 by Benno Hansen

They can kill me at any moment, but they are going to regret it forever because, after I’m dead, others will take my place. Aluisio ‘Alenquer’ Sampaio Alenquer was shot and killed Thursday the 11th of October 2018. He was a campaigner for family farm rights in Brazil, and had received death threats for years…

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Week 41: Colonialism and German coal

Posted on 15th October 201815th October 2018 by Benno Hansen

US “First Lady” Melania Trump went to Africa wearing the very symbol of colonialism. While this inspired some criticism, Elliot Ross found it to be perfectly fitting. Beginning in Arabic, Foreign Minister of Austria, Karin Kneissl, held her speech at the UN General Assembly in multiple languages. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire created a…

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Week 40: The Scallop War, scientific alarm, and Hitler

Posted on 8th October 20188th October 2018 by Benno Hansen

In the English Channel, British and French fishermen have clashed in the Scallop War. In the absence of fishery management, climate change might lead to more fish wars, argues Kathleen McGinty. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s new special report on 1.5°C warming is alarming. But the summary for policymakers is not nearly alarming…

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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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LotteLeicht1Lotte Leicht@LotteLeicht1·
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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