NOTHING WILL STOP THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged BRI, business, California, capitalism, china, climate, climate change, climate change denial, destruction, DRC, economy, Endangered Species Act, environment, environmental, featured, fire, fossil fuels, fuel emissions, government, Greece, heat, heatwave, industry, Ireland, Japan, logging, politics, summer, USA.

by Gunnar Eigener

The environment is changing. All across the globe, weather patterns have shifted, resulting in abnormal meteorological behaviour and pushing society towards conditions it is not used to. The UK has just come out of a record-breaking heatwave. Japan declared a national emergency after heatwaves there killed 65 people. Wildfires in Greece left over 70 people dead and in California, over a dozen people are missing as fires spread. Visitors required evacuation from Yosemite National Park and wind threatens to fan flames in Sweden’s forests.

However, should we be surprised by these events? Continue Reading

BIALOWIEZA FOREST

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Bialowieza, Brexit, capitalism, deforestation, ECJ, environment, European Comission, experts, Greenpeace, logging, Michael Gove, nationalism, Poland.

By Olivia Hanks

What happens if a member state of the European Union refuses to comply with a European Court ruling? Incredibly, the answer is that nobody knows: it has never happened, though financial sanctions including the withdrawal of all subsidies are theoretically possible. But following Poland’s open defiance of an ECJ order to cease logging in the ancient Białowieża forest, suspicions that the EU is essentially toothless when it comes to law enforcement are about to be tested like never before.Continue Reading

ENVIRONMENTAL WARS: KILLED BY THE CORPORATE STATE

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged activism, Agua Zarca, Agua Zarca dam, assassination, Berta Cáceres, campaigners, clean water act, climate, climate change, corporate, corporations, corruption, deepwater horizon, environment, environmental activists, Environmental Watch, environmentalism, Global Witness, Goldman Sachs, Greenpeace, Gustavo Castro Soto, Heathrow 13, Honduras, international womens day, Lenca, logging, Mexico, mining, murder, NGO, police, police corruption, politics, pollution, Unilever, women, World Bank.

by Gunnar Eigener

“The army has an assassination list of 18 wanted human rights fighters with my name at the top. I want to live, there are many things I still want to do in this world but I have never once considered giving up fighting for our territory, for a life with dignity because our fight is legitimate. I take lots of care but in the end, in this country where there is total impunity I am vulnerable…when they want to kill me, they will do it.”

Berta Cáceres (2013)

In the early hours of Thursday 3rd March 2016 in La Esperanza, Honduras, an unknown number of assailants broke into the house of environmental and human rights campaigner Berta Cáceres and killed her. The only witness to the crime, Gustavo Castro Soto, a Mexican national, has been denied permission to leave the country with a 30-day immigration alert put in place against him. According to Global Witness, at least 109 people have been killed between 2010 and 2015 in Honduras, all with links to campaigns against a number of projects, including mining, logging and dams.

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NOTHING WILL STOP THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

BIALOWIEZA FOREST

ENVIRONMENTAL WARS: KILLED BY THE CORPORATE STATE

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