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War on Brazil?

Posted on 22nd May 202022nd May 2020 by Benno Hansen

September 2019, Anders Theis Bollmann asked readers of the Danish newspaper Information if they could ever envision going to war for the climate. To illustrate his case, he used Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil where the rain forest was burning. imagine that research showed that the burning of the Amazon was so violent that it would cause…

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Charges against founder of Wikileaks threaten press freedom

Posted on 13th April 201913th April 2019 by Benno Hansen

Despite certain blemishes, Wikileaks has contributed with disclosures of incredible value to the public. Some of the charges raised at the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 11th April 2019 in London constitute an attack on the free press, says experts and NGOs. The parts of the charges that are under criticism are, particularly,…

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Week 48: A change of climate at FOX News? No change on oil and food markets

Posted on 2nd December 20182nd December 2018 by Benno Hansen

Remember the climate change report that the Trump administration released while most Americans were eating their Thanksgiving turkey? That report didn’t just mention costs of climate change. The security aspects were covered as well. “Climate change, variability, and extreme events, in conjunction with other factors, can exacerbate conflict […] droughts, floods, storm surges, wildfires, and…

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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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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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For the youth

Posted on 4th May 2013 by Benno Hansen

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Call for moratorium on extraction in contested territories

Posted on 7th January 2013 by Benno Hansen

As can be seen in this recent infographic by Information is Beautiful and The Guardian, we need to leave about 86 percent of known fossil fuel resources in the ground to stay within our carbon budget and hopefully avoid raising global temperatures by more than two degrees Celsius. Still exploration and extraction continues unabated. However,…

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The Ecowar rages (especially elsewhere)

Posted on 6th August 2012 by Benno Hansen

[<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…

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Reviews

Posted on 15th January 2012 by Benno Hansen

“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…

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The blog is now a book, long live both

Posted on 28th December 2011 by Benno Hansen

Dear reader, You may already have noticed the orange graphic in the right sidebar? Yes, I have self-published a book based on this blog. And I’m literally giving it away, the price barely covers printing. What will happen to the blog now? Why self-publishing? What is up with that ecowar.eu site? Answers in the tale…

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12 May

putting an Indigenous land defender in prison for peacefully existing in his territory while announcing a $10B loan guarantee for a corporation to buy the pipeline from the petrostate which exists on stolen land is very on brand. #canceltmx https://twitter.com/UBCIC/status/1524562633378041857

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UBCIC Strongly Condemns Punitive Sentencing and Criminalization of Tsleil-Waututh Land Defender Will George: Clearly, the so-called Canadian justice system continues its racist persecution of Indigenous Peoples who seek to protect their homelands https://bit.ly/3wsK0fo 2

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4 May

https://www.information.dk/moti/2022/04/foedevarepolitik-ogsaa-blevet-sikkerhedspolitik-ukrainekrigen

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28 Apr

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a potential ban on Russian coal in the European Union has made coal an extremely profitable commodity.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/10/investing/coal-big-banks-funding-fossil-fuels-climate-change/index.html

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16 Apr

"Officials said violence against dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico is an ongoing concern."

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https://nypost.com/2022/04/15/dolphin-fatally-stabbed-at-fort-meyers-florida-beach?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=android_nyp

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7 Apr

"Russia has cut off the water supply to the besieged city of Mariupol to drive it to surrender. It has also destroyed a canal dam that Ukraine constructed in 2014 to control the water supply into Crimea after Russia annexed the peninsula"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00865-2?fbclid=IwAR3g4DZzU5PpxsB7DBYy6bi-tH_3t1Y5I2fRshLKT3M0WWak1tWbw--seTE

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