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Topic: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

  • The Long Ecological Revolution

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    squirrel

    The prevailing liberal approach to ecological problems, including climate change, has long put capital accumulation before people and the planet. It is maintained that through new technologies, demographic shifts (such as population control), and the mechanisms of the global “free market,” the existing system can successfully address the immense ecological challenges before us. In short,…

  • The Green Revolution: Effects in Asia and implications for Africa

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    fitzdon

    The term Green Revolution refers to the introduction of high-yielding varieties of staple food crops, particularly wheat and rice, into Third World countries, starting in the 1960s. Initially Mexico, India and the Philippines were targeted. The stated aim was to increase food production to end hunger and prevent uprisings.   The Green Revolution did increase…

  • Criminalizing environmental activism

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    fitzdon

    As threats to the environment increase across Latin America, new laws and police practices take aim against the front line activists defending their land and resources. Berta Cáceres, assassinated in her home on March 3, 2016, was just one of hundreds of Latin American environmental activists attacked in recent years. At least 577 environmental human…

  • The Wolf Killers Wore Green

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    fitzdon

    The shooting of the Profanity Pack last year and now a kill order for the Smackout Pack in Northeast Washington clearly demonstrated the failure of the current strategy of many conservation groups who are involved in wolf recovery efforts. In this case, a number of organizations, including Wolf Haven International, Conservation Northwest, Defenders of Wildlife,…

  • Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature

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    fitzdon

    Between 1872 and 1882, Frederick Engels worked on a book titled The Dialectics of Nature that sought to apply Marxist dialectics to the natural world. Although it was never completed and is filled with dated ideas about science, it is a work that has earned the respect of some of the most important scientists on…

  • Meat industry blamed for largest-ever ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico

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    fitzdon

    The global meat industry, already implicated in driving global warming and deforestation, has now been blamed for fueling what is expected to be the worst “dead zone” on record in the Gulf of Mexico. Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways are exacerbating huge, harmful algal blooms that create oxygen-deprived stretches of the gulf,…

  • Kaboom Town

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    fitzdon

    COLFAX, Louisiana — Two years ago, the U.S. military had an embarrassment on its hands: A stockpile of aging explosives blew up at a former Army ammunition plant in Minden, Louisiana, sending a cloud of debris 7,000 feet into the sky. Local residents, alarmed by toxic contaminants from the accident, were nothing short of furious…

  • As the rich move away from disaster zones, the poor are left behind

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    fitzdon

    Every year, major earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes occur. These natural disasters disrupt daily life and, in the worst cases, cause devastation. Events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy killed thousands of people and generated billions of dollars in losses. There is also concern that global climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of weather–related disasters.

  • Lithium-Ion Battery Production is Surging, but at What Cost?

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    henryr874

    In his first Tesla Motors master plan, Elon Musk wrote, “The overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution.” But as clean energy flourishes,…

  • When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members of Companies Like Monsanto and Bayer Be Hauled into Court?

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    fitzdon

    The public is being poisoned, disease rates are spiralling, waterways are contaminated, soil is being degraded, insects, birds, invertebrates and plant diversity are in dramatic decline. Humanity and the planet are being poisoned for profit. We are experiencing an assault on life by the agrotoxins industry, which is in fact contributing to a sixth mass extinction. Armed with…