Posted in Environment, society, tagged ecological-destruction, global-justice, global-warming, human-rights, violence on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear friends,
Peru’s government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure – let’s stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon:
The Peruvian government has pushed through [...]
Posted in Environment, society, tagged ecological-destruction, global-justice, global-warming, human-rights, racism, state-sponsored-terrorism, violence on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 by Rabble
by Ben Powless
The rhetoric was sharp enough to cut down Amazonian hardwoods. Yesterday, Sunday June 7th, after a number of ministers had been paraded out Saturday and the day before, Peru’s el Señor Presidente, Alan Garcia decided to make it personal. After a joint police-military operation aimed at stopping [...]
Posted in Environment, society, tagged ecological-destruction, global-justice, human-rights, state-sponsored-terrorism on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors — many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the neighboring towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica and Utcubamba, shots also came from police snipers on [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-warming on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This stuff really makes depressing reading – an article by John Sauven in today’s Guardian:
The Brazilian government is legalising deforestation and western superbrands are benefiting from it. This needs to stop now!
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, writing in the Guardian in March, offered us these words of hope: “No country has a larger stake [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, politics on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Blue Desert
Sea floor dredged bare
Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?
By George Monbiot
George Monbiot’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
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I live a few miles from Cardigan Bay. Whenever I can get away, I take my kayak down to the beach and launch it through the waves. Often I take [...]
Posted in Environment, civilisation?, tagged ecological-destruction on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Humans do not only have a detrimental affect on their natural environments, they can also destroy their own civilisation in the process as this short New Scientist article describes:
THE builders of the ancient Mayan temples at Tikal in Guatemala switched to inferior wood a few decades before they suddenly abandoned the city in the 9th [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Graywhale entangled in driftnet
Many people in Europe (and in other parts of the world) take their natural environments for granted in terms of believing that their forest, mountain, lake and river wildernesses have remained more or less untouched for hundreds if not thousands of years. That of course is an illusion. Human habitation has always [...]
Posted in Environment, society, tagged business-economy, ecological-destruction, human-rights, state-sponsored-terrorism on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Shell should be boycotted worldwide. The following ZSpace article reveals a shocking background of murder, human rights abuses, environmental destruction and corruption that all are part of Shell’s oil exploits in Nigeria.
By Patrick Bond, Sharife Khadija
Patrick Bond’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
“We sometimes feed conflict by the way we award contracts, gain access to land, [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-warming on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wired Science posted some interesting time lapse clips on changes of the Earth’s surface over a number of years (mostly between 1-3 decades). The changes are primarily based on population growth and global warming, which partly are inter-related of course.
The videos are based on NASA satellite images and they show the effects of urbanisation, deforestation, [...]
Posted in Environment, humour, tagged ecological-destruction, humour on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Normally I’m no fan of Clarke and Dawe; I consider their skits on politicians as just too light-weight. This one though is really funny. The Labor senator questioned here, Collins (he died in 2007) was the minister for shipping at the time but apparently never gave an interview on the incident. [...]
Posted in Environment, society, tagged animals, ecological-destruction, ethics on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European Parliament has just announced a ban on the trade of seal products within the European Union. This may be the most significant victory in IFAW’s 40 year campaign to end Canada’s commercial seal hunt.
From Mexico City to Madrid to Moscow, tens of thousands of letters, postcards, and e-mails poured in – making a [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-warming on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Given the kind of foul taste of tap water, I’ve been buying bottled water for years. Even though they get recycled (at least that’s what we’re told), I have been using them in what I considered was a relatively sensible way: for a week I refilled them with purified water from my Brita water filter [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged activism, ecological-destruction on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“IT’S BACK.”
Support the GetUp campaign below!
That’s how The Age announced news we’ve been dreading to hear: Gunns is close to finding offshore investors for its controversial pulp mill in Tasmania and may begin construction soon.
Gunns just won’t give up on this destructive mill, but so far together we have foiled their every attempt. We’ve [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, photography on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Plastic washed up on Hunting Caye (Toledo, Belize) – Photo: Chloe Wells/Marine Photobank
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-justice, Science, The-Empire-(of America) on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Associated Press reported that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of geo-engineering the earths climate to counter global warming by shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the suns rays (global dimming). However, such programs are already being conducted by government-affiliated universities, government agencies, and [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, food on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NaturalNews‘ editor Mike Adams interviewed well-known marine biologist Boris Worm on almost everything one can think of when it comes to the ecological threats to our oceans: from overfishing and aquaculture to the effects of climate change and pollution on the marine environment and the enormous amounts of trash floating on ocean surfaces. But it’s [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-warming on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The current answer is: 0.80 to 1.50 metres. But there are a couple of issues with this answer. First, the emphasis is on “current” because the predictions are getting constantly worse. Second, we have a an enormous comprehension problem in relation to that figure: 0.80 to 1.50 metres doesn’t sound like a big deal; West [...]
Posted in how-to, tagged ecological-destruction on April 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Written by Gavin Hudson
Posted in About Animals, In The Americas
The ducks died last spring after landing in one of the heavily polluted tailings ponds of made by Syncrude Canada Ltd. Tailings ponds collect the waste from the company’s oil sands operations. Once the birds hit the water, there was little chance of saving them.
“A completely [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged ecological-destruction, global-warming on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this July 11, 2008 photo, a giant glacier is seen making its way to the waters of Croaker Bay on Devon Island. Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years, according to a new report to be released Friday, April 3, 2009. [...]
Posted in Environment, society, tagged business-economy, ecological-destruction, global-warming, human-rights, sustainability, violence on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mar 29, 2009 By Devinder Sharma
Devinder Sharma’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
Top leaders from the largest 20 economies of the world — called G-20 — will assemble in London on April 2. As the Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros said: “this will be the world’s last chance to avert economic disaster.”
George Soros is an honourable man. [...]
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