We live in peaceful times. Conflicts being linked to something as mundane as natural resources is a conspiracy theory. Just kidding… Cambodia: Villages razed to clear land for sugar plantation Amnesty International and other organisations have exposed the Cambodian authorities’ systematic failure to protect people from forced evictions. Forced evictions in the name of economic…
Month: November 2011
Grease is the new copper
Materials and resources once common, inexpensive or just non-existing pop up in a new league of the craved for or expensive. Copper and solar panels have been new objects of theft in recent years. Now grease is getting locked up to protect it from thieves. Yes, grease. Biofuel producers are now buying used cooking oil…
America vs Europe trade war over carbon looming
The European Union is about to take two small steps on the long journey of combating climate change: A small “tax” on air travel and another small tax on fossil fuels based on exactly how polluting the specific type of fossil fuel is. Both could ultimately end up in WTO courts; the former brought there…
Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Earth! Nature is in the 99%
Remember how Bill McKibben of 350.org gave a short speech at Wall Street lately? He’s not the only one connecting the dots between the socially unjust financial crisis and the environment. When I went to Occupy Copenhagen last time I think most of the speakers were mostly going on about the bank bailouts – but…