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Posts Tagged ‘Morales’
Conservation, Politics, Sep 27th, 2011,
Plans for a proposed highway that would cut through Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest, linking Brazil to ports in Chile and Peru, have been put on hold following protests by activists and allegations of excessive police force. Indigenous and environmentalist activists are staunchly opposed to the highway’s construction, which is being financed by Brazil and would run through preserved Amazon forest. The rainforest is home to some 15 thousand indigenous Bolivians. About 1,000 protesters were staging a 500km march on the main city La Paz when they were stopped by riot police on Sunday in the Yucumo region. –BBC News The…
Tags: amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, highway, La Paz, Morales, protest, rain forest
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 20th, 2011,
I recently read Paolo Bacigalupi’s award winning “biopunk” science fiction novel The Windup Girl, set in a future Thailand where nationalist politics intertwine with genetic engineering and energy scarcity. In Bangkok’s bleak dystopian landscape, corporations control food supplies via copyrighted “gene hacked” produce, always threatened or bolstered by engineered plagues which threaten plants, animals and humans. Climate change is also ravaging the planet, fuel is scarce and methane strictly rationed. Bacigalupi’s vision lies firmly within the genre of speculative fiction, but the relationship between issues such as food security due to market speculation and genetic engineering, climate change, peak oil…
Tags: Bolivia, food security, Morales, Paolo Bacigalupi, seeds, Windup Girl
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 26th, 2010,
In terms of development and environment, global capitalism can be compared to a dinner where a rich few eat all the food and leave the bill with their poor, unwilling hosts after tossing a stingy tip and some dinner notes onto the table. The colonized, indigenous and poorest peoples of the world are the ones who suffer most from climate change, do the least to cause it and hold the least power to stop it. The UNFCCC in Copenhagen last December may have called attention to the lower tier of the developing world, but it did not give them much…
Tags: alternative, Bolivia, climate, Climate change, conference, copenhagen, Earth, environment, environmental, Evo, Guardian, indigenous, Morales, poor, President, talks, WPCCC
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 22nd, 2010,
Bolivia has been hosting an international summit, named the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in the city of Cochabamba. The talks began on the 19th and finish today. From a report by the Environmental News Service: More than 20,000 indigenous, environmental and civil society delegates from 129 countries were in attendance as President Morales welcomed them to the conference at a soccer stadium in the village of Tiquipaya on the outskirts of the city of Cochabamba. The tone in Bolivia is decidedly political, with an emphasis on nature, poor and indigenous peoples and…
Tags: Bolivia, Bolivian, capitalism, climate, Climate change, Cochabamba, conference, environmental, Guardian, indigenous, justice, mine, Morales, people, President, rights, talks, water
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 16th, 2010,
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth begins on Monday, April 19th in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The summit, which is not under the auspices of the UN, is seen as the alternative to Copenhagen, with more of a focus on poor peoples, social justice and environmental activism. In addition to scientists, representatives of indigenous peoples, NGOs and government officials, the conference will welcome prominent authors, academic luminaries and Hollywood celebrities. The final group an obvious and understandable strategy to garner valuable publicity for issues that were buried during Copenhagen. Big names expected at the Bolivia…
Tags: alternative, Bolivia, climate, Climate change, conference, copenhagen, Earth, environmental, Evo, Hollywood, Morales, mother, poor, President, summit
