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Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Nov 24th, 2011,
The coal and palm oil industries have been getting away with ecocide in the forests of Indonesia, threatening the traditional, sustainable way of life of local villagers and destroying the delicately balanced ecology of the region. Now the palm oil firm PT Munte Waniq Jaya Perkasa is moving into a previously untouched area of forest in East Kalimantan province. Villagers, who both depend on and care for the forests, are struggling to defend this remaining forest oasis from further ecocide at the hands of corporate greed. Sources report that the firm’s bulldozers have been clearing approximately five hectares a…
Tags: ecocide, forest, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, orangutan, palm oil
Climate Change, Pollution, Jul 7th, 2010,
When I was a little kid in the 1970s, my brother had a poster on his wall depicting an artist’s renderings of three possible future environments with the headline, ‘Which future would you choose?’ One showed a future in which man had chosen to live in harmony with nature and developed eco-friendly technology. A thriving green landscape dotted with white globes and pods while happy future-people tended vegetable gardens in the fresh air and had scintillating conversations about what great choices their predecessors had made. Ahhh… The second was a highly urbanized future featuring a glowing red sunset that backlit…
Tags: China, ecocide, future, humanity, industrial, industry, Linfen, primitive, wasteland
Climate Change, Nature, May 10th, 2010,
According to Greenpeace, petrol stations in the European Union sell fuel derived from the oil sands of Northeastern Alberta, Canada. A Greenpeace report entitled ‘Tar Sands in Your Tank: Exposing Europe’s role in Canada’s dirty oil trade’ claims that petroleum products from the tar sands are regularly entering EU markets. Canada’s tar sands oil extraction project is considered by many to be one of the worst ‘ecocides‘ perpetrated against the environment. BP, in an effort to draw attention away from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, has been talking up oil sand extraction as a…
Tags: BP, Canada, crude, ecocide, Europe, Greenpeace, Gulf, oil sands, tar sands
Climate Change, Politics, May 5th, 2010,
Ecocide is relatively new word used to describe a practice that results in large-scale environmental damage or destruction. It is, in short, the murder of the environment. Environmental lawyer Polly Higgins is campaigning the UN to have ecocide be considered an international crime against peace, similar to genocide and other crimes against humanity. Higgins is quoted in an article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life. It leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind. Where such destruction arises out of the actions of mankind,…
Tags: China, crime against, destruction, ecocide, environmental, Higgins, humanity, international, Linfen, murder, peace
