Catching up on emails marked ‘to do’ today I realized I really needed to take a look at the work of one Polly Higgins, barrister, author and activist. Just peek at her website: THIS IS ECOCIDE. Looks like I have another book to read but for now here’s (some of?) her YouTube videos: Polly Higgins…
Month: December 2010
Read “Crude World” by Peter Maass
News about the oil business, campaigns against it’s foul play, news about pollution incidents, academic studies dealing with the many implications of the importance of oil and similar reports are not infrequent. Quite a few entries at this present blog deals with oil. But how about a first hand account of visits to the oil…
Mexicans march in support of drug cartel
Perhaps you thought the year 2029 scenario mentioned in my summary of Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars was a bit far fetched? Granted, Mexican states being ruled by warlords is a bit imaginative. So is reality. Read Narco Blog / Mexicans March in Support of “ La Familia” Drug Cartel: In an unprecedented event, on Sunday…
Ecowar – The Movie
A compilation of video clips from three years of blogging about the links between natural resources and conflict. Watch environmentalists get beaten up, wars for oil, repression for diamond profits, over-consumption and pollution causing natural disasters and more. Contains raw footage from French Greenpeace, Palestinian farmers and Australian tree huggers. Contains two short clips from…
“Climate Wars” by Gwynne Dyer (a review / rip-off)
With a title like Climate Wars this book looks “alarmist” even to someone sick and tired of being called just that. But actually, it is far less dramatic than the action paced science fiction that may come to mind. Written by a veteran soldier with academic degrees in military history and years of experience in…