Several places in the Amazon illegal miners and loggers clash with indigenous tribes in conflict over access to and use of land. “Use of” as in clear cutting, strip mining or chemically polluting. This particular report is a tad more gruesome than most of them. Only three hunters who were away when the village was…
Author: Benno Hansen
The Ecowar rages (especially elsewhere)
[<a href=”http://storify.com/bennohansen/ecowar-july-2012″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Ecowar, July 2012” on Storify</a>]<h1>Ecowar, July 2012</h1><h2>No new stories were posted to the Ecowar blog July 2012. Generally, I write up fewer stories since publishing the book. But I started tweeting pretty much every online story I find in stead. Here is a summary of the month of July 2012…
Greenland to export uranium & rare earth minerals to China?
Perhaps you have already heard oil corporations are looking for oil in the Arctic seas around Greenland. But also the Chinese show some interest in Denmark, Greenland’s mineral wealth especially. Greenland holds untouched resources of uranium which pose a dilemma to the nuclear free kingdom. Recently, Hu Jintao visited Denmark and Danish politicians visited China….
A quite frank comment on climate migration from Israeli expert
Israeli expert says it exactly like he sees it after having researched his country’s challenges: “The migration wave is not a problem for the future. It is today; it is going on now […] It will just increase from day to day. […] In India, they shoot; in Nepal, they shoot; in Japan, they shoot [at…
The US of A: Coal and oil right-wing battles life-saving sustainability initiatives in the military. Really.
Even if wars are not all about oil, soldiers have certainly been killed for oil: Up to one in three US casualties has happened at gasoline convoys. Check out how solar panels are saving lives and improving the flexibility of US Marines deep in foreign deserts: Grist / U.S. military kicks more ass by using…
Addition to reading list: Club of Rome author writes 2052 prognosis
In the book “2052,” Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of “Limits to Growth,” issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political…
Am I Marxist?
No, I’m not. None the less, allow me to copy/paste some genuine Communist quotes of ecowar relevance: Labor is not the source of all wealth. Nature is just as much the source of use values (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor, which itself is only the manifestation of a…
“Defining Peace” – talk by Zeitgeist’s Peter Joseph
The neo-guru of the Zeitgeist movement, Peter Joseph gave a good speech in Israel on 6th of February, 2012. It has been uploaded in its entirety to Youtube.A highlight at about half an hour into the speech Joseph quotes professor of history Richard A. Gabriel on the historical emergence of warfare. Joseph continues: …since that…
Jacque Fresco, Venus Project interviewed on Russia Today
“The Venus Project is an attempt to bring world peace and all the nations together. If you don’t want war, killing, [?] crime you have to redesign the way society works, you have to declare all the Earth’s resources as a common heritage of all the world’s people […] We don’t go to another country…
Truck driver busted with stolen glacier – denialism & jokes ensue
So, Chilean police have arrested a truck driver with 5 tonnes of “endangered” glacier ice. My first thoughts were of the tragic irony: poor people worsening an environmental catastrophe (glacier degradation) probably to mitigate its effects (droughts) in what affordable way they could conceive (theft in response to water supply being privatized). Then the denial…
Eco-terrorism and terrorist-journalism
Course of events: a) Animal rights activists are raided by police b) Journalist cover the case Can you guess what’s next? Probably not… c) Journalist is labelled ‘extremist’ and persecuted Can you guess the country? No, not the glorious nation of Kazakhstan. The USA. Get the facts straight for yourself: Check out Green is the…
Reviews
“a paradigm shifting book with tremendous depth and scope […] a journey that ranges from the anthropological story of modern humans from paleo times, to impressive cross-sections of human history, to an overview of what seems to be all major conflicts in the past few decades. […] guarantee to galvanize even the most eco-saavy reader's…