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Week 36: Dead bodies, vigilante groups, and an award

Posted on 6th September 20186th September 2018 by Benno Hansen

How often do you despair that so little action is taken even in the face of mounting signs of trouble to come? It “takes dead bodies on the table”, a saying in Danish goes. And this summer’s Californian wildfires at least led to that Democrat led US state’s pledge to transform to 100% renewable energy….

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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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German professor Harald Welzer: “we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st century, and many of these conflicts will spring from climate change”

Posted on 19th November 2017 by Benno Hansen

“You always have a higher potential for violent conflict when the survival conditions of groups of people are threatened. […] if all these scientists and climate researchers are right, or even close to right, what does it mean for greater potential for violent conflict? I think the answers are not encouraging.” “My belief is that…

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Invitation to fight the ecowar

Posted on 20th February 2017 by Benno Hansen

I need YOU to write Ecowar. I will assist. You get final say. Together we will produce a little something cool. Read the full call for papers for further inspiration and instructions. (Languages accepted: preferably English, Danish, perhaps German.)

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Download the book "Ecowar – Natural Resources and Conflict" for free

Posted on 18th January 2017 by Benno Hansen

Dear reader, After five years of distribution by a publisher, my book Ecowar – Natural resources and conflict is now available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution license. That means you are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the…

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Surprise: Few wars are primarily about oil

Posted on 25th May 2016 by Benno Hansen

The Washington Post recently published Oil wars: Why nations aren’t battling over resources by Emily Meierding. Does this article remove the entire foundation of this blog and the book I made of it? Pointing at “invasion costs, occupation costs, international costs and investment costs”, Emily Meierding says oil wars are just not worth fighting. With…

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Food Security and Conflict – speech and debate

Posted on 7th May 2016 by Benno Hansen

Food Security and Conflict debate by Food Tank. Keynote speaker: David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “The main concentration of world hunger now is in countries that are struggling with conflict.”

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Read “THE OUTLAW OCEAN” series on New York Times

Posted on 16th January 2016 by Benno Hansen

Check out New York Times’ six part series about the medevial conditions on the high seas. In this series on lawlessness on the high seas, Ian Urbina reveals that crime and violence in international waters often goes unpunished. In particular, ‘SEA SLAVES’: THE HUMAN MISERY THAT FEEDS PETS AND LIVESTOCK reports of slavery-like working conditions onboard….

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Research summary

Posted on 31st January 2015 by Benno Hansen

While blogging, a cornerstone of sources were scientific journal articles. These are covered in chapter four of the book, Thinking about it: theories of peace and war. The recent publication by Bove et al has inspired me to summarize some of the quantitative research about conflict over natural resources in a table. Enjoy… Tweet

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