Masthash

#Ecocide

“We are terrified. We need you.”

“Wherever you are, become a climate advocate or activist... Join or start groups pushing for policies that help secure a better future. Contact groups that are active where you are, find out when they meet and attend their meetings."

“If we are to create a liveable future, #ClimateAction must move from being something that others do to something that we all do.”

#COP28 #Ecocide #HumanExtinction #DontLookUp #FossilFuelsKill #JustStopOil

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/04/more-than-1000-climate-scientists-urge-public-to-become-activists

Greg Dance
18 hours ago

Jojo Mehta "This year alone, we've witnessed the proposal of new domestic ecocide bills every few weeks, including the first reading of a UK ecocide bill introduced to the House of Lords last Thursday(!)"

Donating before midday GMT on 5th December.

"We’ve now entered the final 24 hours in which, thanks to our inclusion in biggive.org’s Christmas Challenge, any donations we receive up to a total of £100K will be doubled!"

https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002RXqA0AAL

#ecocide #stopecocide

💭 tinderness
23 hours ago

🔥 #ClimateDiary

#Ecocide #Crime - Unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.

#Ökozid #Kriminalität - rechtswidrige oder vorsätzliche Handlungen, die in dem Wissen begangen werden, dass es wahrscheinlich ist, dass dadurch schwerwiegende und entweder weitreichende oder langfristige Schäden an der Umwelt verursacht werden.

🌀 https://www.stopecocide.earth/

Palm Oil Detectives
1 day ago

The world’s largest turtle the Leatherback Sea Turtle faces new threats on Great #Nicobar Island, #India#palmoil #deforestation and a seaport. This will result in #ecocide. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/02/15/a-mega-port-and-palm-oil-on-great-nicobar-island-india-threatens-the-survival-of-the-largest-turtles-on-earth/ via @palmoildetect

The world’s largest turtle the Leatherback Sea Turtle faces new threats on Great #Nicobar Island, #India – #palmoil #deforestation and a seaport. This will result in #ecocide. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/02/15/a-mega-port-and-palm-oil-on-great-nicobar-island-india-threatens-the-survival-of-the-largest-turtles-on-earth/ via @palmoildetect
The world’s largest turtle the Leatherback Sea Turtle faces new threats on Great #Nicobar Island, #India – #palmoil #deforestation and a seaport. This will result in #ecocide. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/02/15/a-mega-port-and-palm-oil-on-great-nicobar-island-india-threatens-the-survival-of-the-largest-turtles-on-earth/ via @palmoildetect
The world’s largest turtle the Leatherback Sea Turtle faces new threats on Great #Nicobar Island, #India – #palmoil #deforestation and a seaport. This will result in #ecocide. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/02/15/a-mega-port-and-palm-oil-on-great-nicobar-island-india-threatens-the-survival-of-the-largest-turtles-on-earth/ via @palmoildetect
The world’s largest turtle the Leatherback Sea Turtle faces new threats on Great #Nicobar Island, #India – #palmoil #deforestation and a seaport. This will result in #ecocide. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/02/15/a-mega-port-and-palm-oil-on-great-nicobar-island-india-threatens-the-survival-of-the-largest-turtles-on-earth/ via @palmoildetect
McWabbit🐰
2 days ago

So all those blockbuster Bond movies, as well as 2012 (2009) and Elysium (2013) were actual warnings in which villainous oligarchs want to wipe out the majority of the population and have the remainder enslaved to do their bidding. 🤔

#COP28 #Musk #Bezos #Oligarchy #FossilFuels #PrivateJets #Shell #Exxon #UAE #Dubai #SultanAlJaber #Oil #Energy #Netzero #XR #klima #climate #draught #ForestFires #floods #HeatDeath #ecocide #ExtinctionRebellion #Climatecrisis #JamesBond #2012 #Elysium

Phoenix.Serenity
2 days ago

As #COP28 prepares to pave way for massive expansion in the market for #CarbonCredits, campaigners have warned that they now represent “as big a threat to #IndigenousLands as logging and mining.”
#IndigenousRights org #SurvivalInternational said: “COP28 could be the “Blood Carbon COP”, when governments, big business & conservation NGOs work together to boost the carbon credits market, rather than seriously address real causes of the #ClimateCrisis.

https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2312/S00016/carbon-credits-fever-now-as-big-a-threat-to-indigenous-lands-as-logging-and-mining.htm

#Greenwash #Ecocide

Phoenix.Serenity
2 days ago

All four of the #tested substances had the capacity to reduce the #crustacean's #mating success, through changes in its behavior.

On top of this, two of the #chemicals tested, triphenyl phosphate (#TPHP) and dibutyl phthalate (#DBP), caused a decline in #SpermCount.

https://www.sciencealert.com/plastic-waste-is-turning-tiny-marine-animals-off-sex

#MarineBiology #Science #Plastics #pollution #microplastics #ReproductiveScience #Ecocide #Nature

Palm Oil Detectives
3 days ago

This #Christmas use your wallet as a weapon. Shop #palmoilfree because for 20 years big brands have used "sustainable" #palmoil. Yet ALL palm oil grown on land is laced with #ecocide and #extinction! Instead you should #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/brands-using-deforestation-palm-oil/

This #Christmas use your wallet as a weapon. Shop #palmoilfree because for 20 years big brands have used "sustainable" #palmoil. Yet ALL palm oil grown on land is laced with #ecocide and #extinction! Instead you should #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/brands-using-deforestation-palm-oil/
This #Christmas use your wallet as a weapon. Shop #palmoilfree because for 20 years big brands have used "sustainable" #palmoil. Yet ALL palm oil grown on land is laced with #ecocide and #extinction! Instead you should #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/brands-using-deforestation-palm-oil/
This #Christmas use your wallet as a weapon. Shop #palmoilfree because for 20 years big brands have used "sustainable" #palmoil. Yet ALL palm oil grown on land is laced with #ecocide and #extinction! Instead you should #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/brands-using-deforestation-palm-oil/
This #Christmas use your wallet as a weapon. Shop #palmoilfree because for 20 years big brands have used "sustainable" #palmoil. Yet ALL palm oil grown on land is laced with #ecocide and #extinction! Instead you should #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/brands-using-deforestation-palm-oil/
Scientist Rebellion Norway
5 days ago

Water scarcity is one of the most scary consequences of global climate change. Food and water insecurity are quiet killers. Stop #ecocide now. #scientistrebellion_norway

Water scarcity is one of the most scary consequences of global climate change. Food and water insecurity are quiet killers. Stop #ecocide now.
⏚ Bassines ? Bah Non !
5 days ago
La cartographie comme outil de lutte (5)


En Ouganda & Tanzanie, + de 118000 personnes ont été partiellement ou totalement expropriées de leurs terres pour faire place aux projets #EACOP & Tilenga de #TotalEnergies.

👉 Une carte interactive pour visualiser les violations des droit humains & les atteintes à l’environnement liées à ces projets: eacopmap.org qui confirme leurs témoignages.

#cartographie #colonialisme #ecocide
Photo aérienne avec un teaser sur le site de la carte
Paria sans portefeuille
6 days ago

"During the #VietnamWar, mother and daughter both fought for the resistance in the depths of the jungle. It was at this time that Nga was sprayed with #AgentOrange - a toxic defoliant used by the US military to strip away the leafy canopy of the trees and expose their enemies hiding beneath it. Two years later, her first daughter was born with severe health issues and died.."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4rby?at_link_origin=bbcworldservice&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_id=C0E443BE-8B9B-11EE-BA4E-D10D423A1DFE&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign_type=owned

#TranToNga #dioxine #ArmesChimiques #GuerreDuVietnam #JusticePourTranToNga #écocide #Vietnam

Kent Pitman
6 days ago

@matthiasott

They must immediately, prominently charge this apparently global and brazenly systematic activity under recent EU law criminalizing wide-scale environmental damage “comparable to ecocide”.
https://inkl.com/a/QzAxkATrVYL

If true, it affects EU (and the world) profoundly, cynically seeking profit by hijacking and sabotaging what SHOULD be a climate protection body. The attempt to coopt a process whose job is to stop wide-scale ecological disaster should itself be seen as ecological disaster.

Don't let there become the ecological equivalent of white collar crimes, tolerated because they seem or are portrayed as too abstract. This is where the real damage us done.

There is something especially perverse, cynical, ugly and dangerously fraud-like about not just doing such lobbying but in the guise of a RESPONSE to climate threats.

This is a good test case because it's not like an isolated event that happens afar, such as an oil spill. Its EFFECT extends to and solidly occurs WITHIN the EU. Each and every policy change affecting a member nation should implicate anyone implementing that change in EU because such changes occur within the EU and all that happens outside is the lobbying for and agreement.

Put them on notice NOW, before the meeting, that such policy changes as flow from this neeting will be charged so no one can be surprised by this interpretation after..

Seek relevant email and physical documents about meeting planning and agendas that that flowed to/from the EU prior, and later followup documents that implement any lobbied-for sale or policy change.

Charge all involved, those lobbying and those implementing, even though they aren't physically in the EU. Arrest them later upon entry for any followup purpose.

Even if it fails, it highlights the need for more, broader & stronger laws.

Every counter-argument made, every loophole cited, and every appeal filed should have its basis scrutinized and its key elements meticulously catalogued so they can be flowed directly into new & more solid law impervious to such, because actions like these IMPLEMENT deadly regulatory capture. They MUST be seen as capital crimes against humanity.

#climate #EU #UN #crime #ecocide #extinction #law #legal #COP28 #corruption #oil #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis

mokomokai
6 days ago

>Meinung: Klimakrise - Die #Kultur bleibt auffällig stumm<

#Singvoegel & Co. verlassen uns!

#Ecocide #Topocide #Climatecrisis

Auf dem Gelände der Bundespolizei in Böblingen wurden Bäume gefällt.
Darunter auch ein sehr alter Baum!

Oder der #Schloßberg in #Böblingen!
Statt zu entsiegeln & mehr Stadtbaeume zu pflanzen, soll dort gebaut werden.
Es droht der Verlust sehr alter & gesunder Bäume!
So verschwindet gewachsene Architektur des Lebens für Singvoegel!

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-suche-nach-guten-zukuenften-kann-die-wissenschaft-nicht-uebernehmen-100.html

Greg Dance
1 week ago

https://www.stopecocide.earth

This year alone, we’ve seen ecocide bills proposed or progressing in Italy, Spain (Catalunya), Mexico, Brazil, the Netherlands, Belgium and Scotland.

#ecocide
Probably won’t happen, but Heck Let’s Try it Anyway!

sheislaurence
1 week ago

🧵 1/2: #C4news exclusively reports on the Centre for #Climate Reporting undercover operation: as the #UAE prepares to host #COP28, its #Oil Sustainability Programme directly reporting into Crown Prince #MBS plans to boost #oil demand in #Africa & #Asia by flooding the market with oil-produced #electricity and cheap #diesel/#petrol #cars. It also pushes for #aviation development, via oil-hungry supersonic flights. #greenwashing #ecocide
https://www.channel4.com/news/undercover-filming-highlights-saudi-plan-to-artificially-raise-oil-demand

Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

@Greengordon Until #GovernmentOfCanada actually stops #CorporateWelfare for #ecocide corporations - I'm taking every environmental pledge they make with buckets of salt.

Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

#SuncorEnergy has restarted the #TerraNova floating #OilProduction & storage offloading vessel in #Canada and production is expected to ramp up over the coming months.

Terra Nova is an #oilfield located #offshore #Newfoundland & #Labrador.

The #Canadian #oil site has #restarted after the completion of the Terra Nova #AssetLifeExtension project. In 2021, #Suncor & Terra Nova #JointVenture owners finalized project to extend production life by about 10 yrs.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/suncor-restarts-production-terra-nova-canada-2023-11-27

#ecocide

Vesna Manojlovic
1 week ago

Blast from the past: my very late overview of the #LIMITS conference

https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/computing-within-limits-2023/

"Computing Within Limits 2023" #sustainability #Permacomputing #ecocide #RIPE #RIPE87

"Computing is Ecocide" graph
Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

A spill of surface runoff from a containment pond at #Suncor #Energy’s #FortHills #oilsands site may have spanned more than a year, the #AlbertaEnergyRegulator has announced.

The regulator said on Oct. 9, the energy company reported an “unplanned release” of around 662 cubic metres from the pond adjacent to Fort Hills into the #AthabascaRiver.

But on Nov. 24, Suncor informed the regulator that the #oilspill was likely much larger than originally reported.

https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/national-news/alberta-energy-regulator-reports-spill-at-suncors-fort-hills-oilsands-site

#Ecocide

Palm Oil Detectives
1 week ago

#Palmoil cultivation in #India’s northeast is devastating natural ecology with increased human-animal conflicts and #ecocide leaving farmers, forests and animals at risk #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife Story: @AsiaPacificFdn https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/06/07/indias-palm-oil-push-leaves-northeast-indian-farmers-forests-and-animals-at-risk/ via @palmoildetectives

SearchingForEmpathy
1 week ago

To @all, who are criticizing wars and hatred and are acting against the political leaders who are terrorizing human beings by military force:

This system is basing on patriarchal military power (the so called industrial military complex) and profit. Therefore: The war machine is needing hatred and fear between human beings and nations for producing and selling arms. Every war is a testing field for new weapons, for reducing the stocks of older weapons and for producing a new generation of arms. Wars are also a trade show for arms, which are basing on test by instrumentalization human beings as vivid material.

We as humankind really need a movement for the #LastGeneration of weapons!

A further reason for it:
War is climate killer:
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/climate-change-us-military-war/

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/how-war-impacts-the-environment-and-climate-change/

#StopTheKilling #stopthewar #StopGenocide

#ukraine #UkraineWar #palestine #Gaza #Israel #IsraelHamaswar

#ecocide

Jon
1 week ago

#ClimateCrisis
#Ecocide

Ongoing protests while @australianlabor are being the usual disappointment they do so well.
They continue to prop up the offshore and local corporations who have created the ecological mess we're in, with our money.

Let's use public monies to stave off this utter fuck up instead of using it fluffing billionaires.

https://michaelwest.com.au/protest-flotilla-blocks-coal-port-in-climate-action/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-11-25&utm_campaign=Today+s+news+from+Michael+West+Media

DoomsdaysCW
2 weeks ago

#DoctrineOfDiscovery: #SteveNewcomb @ #StandingRock

Oct 2, 2019

Posted by the #LakotaLawProject

"So how do we get rid of the domination system that afflicts the planet at this time? It has been afflicting it for so many centuries thousands of years that's the rule -- the real challenge..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NmlJcy7RrA

#Colonialism #Domination #CorporateColonialism #ChristianEmpire #Ecocide

Greg Dance
2 weeks ago

The EU has agreed to enshrine in law a new offence that aims to punish the most serious crimes against the environment.

The final text emerged following several months of negotiation (“trilogues”) between the European Council, Commission and Parliament considering, inter alia, the establishment of a “qualified offence” aimed at preventing and punishing the gravest environmental harms including, as the accompanying recitals specify, “cases comparable to ecocide”.

#ecocide

“ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.
Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

A new #American #study has confirmed southeastern #BritishColumbia #CoalMines are #contaminating waters shared by #Canada & the #USA, adding the miner’s attempts to remove #selenium from #wastewater aren’t making much difference to the amount flowing south.

“It’s making a small dent,” said Meryl Storb of the #UnitedStates #Geological Survey, lead author of the newly published study.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/u-s-study-finds-b-c-mining-toxin-in-american-waters-treatment-a-small-dent

#Ecocide #BCpoli #Pollution #BCNDP #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia

Rat Can't Read (she/her)
2 weeks ago

And I do think that what we need, as a society, more than anything, is new values. Our current conceptions of bravery, strength, assertiveness, charisma, or confidence are what got us here just as much as #capitalism, #WhiteSupremacy, #patriarchy, #queerphobia and #ableism did. We're stuck in a world that's still holding up those old values and we're forced to judge ourselves by them, even as we try to cultivate new values, values that will help us survive in a world of #Ecocide, #pandemics, and #fascism.

I'm trying to remember that, to judge myself by these new values rather than the old ones. I'm trying to remember that if someone is judging me by those old values, they're not someone who's worthy of my time or attention. They're not someone who's going to make it in the #apocalypse.

Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

A dizzying bird’s-eye view of #Alberta’s #oilsands.

It’s the largest #bitumen deposit in the world. #Mining there is visible from space. And for many #Canadians, the oilsands are still completely unseen.

This is the oilsands — the home of billions of barrels of tarry #CrudeOil that lies under 142,000 square kilometres of northern Alberta, driving the local economy and bolstering provincial budgets.

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilsands-photos

#ABpoli #CDNpoli #CanPoli #Environment #Climate #Ecocide #DirtyOil

Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

"There are wide open spaces to breathe in,” promises Saguenay’s tourism website, displaying fjords, forests and snowshoe trails.

What it neglects to #advertise: the #timber, #phosphate & #niobium projects spoiling its landscape.
About 200 kms north of #Quebec City, #Saguenay’s boroughs are clustered around #mines & plants that include some of the province’s largest #industrial #polluters.

https://breachmedia.ca/quebec-saguenay-green-tech-future-aluminum-industry/

#Canada #environmental #pollution #CorporateGreed #Ecocide #GreedKills #CDNpoli

Vince
2 weeks ago

#climatechange #wildfires #ecocide #fortmac2016 "Over the last summer alone, Canada has generated 100 cumulonimbus fire clouds. These are major planetary phenomena, not unlike hurricanes, except they’re born out of fire. Volcanoes are usually the only natural thing that can generate that much energy.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/17/john-vaillant-firestorms-fire-weather-baillie-gifford-canadian-blaze

Outi
2 weeks ago

okei siis pitäis olla nukkumassa - mutta hetkonen?

eiks tän pitäis olla aika iso uutinen? 🥳

EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’

Directive punishes most serious cases of environmental damage, including habitat loss and illegal logging

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide

#eu #eupol #ilmasto #climate #ecocide

eli EU kiristää ympäristölainsäädäntöään. sanaa luonnontuhonta (ecocide) ei sanota ääneen, mutta sisältö on ilm hyvin vastaava kuin lakiasiantuntijapaneelin 2021 ehdotus.

Ivi Choc
2 weeks ago

Well done, all of us!

"Well humanity, we did it, even if just for one day. Yesterday, Nov. 18, was the first time in recorded history that the global 2m surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.

The long-term average remains below 1.5°C. But not for long." Prof. Elliot Jacobson

https://twitter.com/eliotjacobson/status/1726209452729327644

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #EcosystemCollapse #fossilfuels #ecocide #ClimateEmergency

Henk de Ligt
2 weeks ago

De EU is het eerste internationale orgaan dat grootschalige milieuschade 'vergelijkbaar met #ecocide' strafbaar gaat stellen.

Donderdag stemden wetgevers in met een nieuwe richtlijn inzake milieucriminaliteit, die de ernstigste gevallen van vernietiging van ecosystemen streng bestraft.

Goed nieuws en een ​​teken van de snelheid waarmee de regelgeving in Europa op milieugebied verandert. De besturen van bedrijven en hun financiële instellingen zijn alvast gewaarschuwd.

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide

EU criminaliseert milieuschade ‘vergelijkbaar met ecocide’.
Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

The crew, workers with the #TransMountain #pipeline expansion, were assessing a sinkhole about 3 metres(10 ft) wide & 3 metres deep.

And it wasn’t the first to crop up. Rindt says 6 #sinkholes have now opened on or near his property since April.

Rindt, a Township of #Langley #MunicipalCouncillor, grows sod for turf fields & co-owns the Roots & Wings distillery on the property.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10093891/langley-sinkholes-trans-mountain-pipeline

#ecocide #StopTMX #TMXisEvil #BritishColumbia #YVR #BCNDP #BCpoli #CDNpoli #PNW #Canada

Mark@RCR 🌀
2 weeks ago

The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise wide-scale environmental damage “comparable to ecocide”.
Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and MEP heading EU efforts to criminalise #ecocide, said the decision “marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals” and could usher in a new age of environmental litigation in Europe. #environment #climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide

• A image that the environment NGO Agent Green says is evidence of large-scale deforestation and habitat degradation in the Cindrel mountains of Romania. Photograph: Agent Green/AP
CelloMom On Cars
3 weeks ago

"Parliament and Council negotiators also agreed on stricter sanctions for so-called qualified offences, i.e. those causing the destruction of an #ecosystem or #habitat within a protected site or damage to air, #soil or #water quality.These would include offences comparable to #ecocide with catastrophic results such as widespread pollution or large-scale forest fires."

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/pt/press-room/20230929IPR06108/environmental-crimes-deal-on-new-offences-and-reinforced-sanctions

BIJ1
3 weeks ago

Edson Olf had een krachtige boodschap op de #klimaatmars: bedrijven die het klimaat schade toebrengen, moeten verantwoordelijk worden gehouden voor #ecocide

Mensen boven winst!

#EdsonOlf #Klimaatcrisis #TK2023 #BreekMetFossieleSubsidies #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1

Al Jazeera: *If Gaza was in your city, how much would be destroyed?*

"Gaza has been ravaged by more than one month of non-stop Israeli bombardment that has levelled entire neighbourhoods and delivered death and destruction to the enclave's 2.3 million residents.

Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged Gaza Strip, which is just 365sq km (141sq miles) in size. That is the equivalent of two nuclear bombs landing on an area a quarter the size of London.

As of November 10, half of Gaza’s homes - 222,000 residential units - have been damaged, with more than 40,000 completely destroyed. While most of the destruction has been centred in northern Gaza, even its south, which Israel had declared a safe zone, has not been spared. …"

🌐 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/11/13/if-gaza-was-in-your-city-how-much-would-be-destroyed

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #IDF #war #destruction #WarCrimes #genocide #ecocide #Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Once divided into East and West by the Berlin Wall, the city of some 3.8 million inhabitants covers an area of 892sq km (344sq miles), about twice the size of Gaza.

The Gaza Strip is about the same length as from Kladow to Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf, and as wide as from Kreuzberg to Gesundbrunnen.

To put some landmarks in perspective:

    Grunewald Forest would be in Khan Younis
    Brandenburg Gate would be in Deir el-Balah
    The Berlin Wall Memorial would be in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp

⬇️ important info from APEN (https://apen4ej.org) ⬇️

*What does Palestine have to do with environmental justice?*

Israel's 75-year occupation of Palestine is an example of environmental apartheid.

The Israeli government has forced Palestinians off of their land, stolen their water and natural resources, and used Palestinian towns and villages as a dumping ground for raw sewage and toxic contaminants.

[source: Institute for Middle East Understanding (2022)]

Israel steals Palestinian water.

Israel steals more than 80% of water in the West Bank for use by illegal settlements, denying Palestinians access to water while supplying Israeli settlers with enough water to fill swimming pools, irrigate crops, and wash vehicles.

[source: Amnesty International (2009)]

Israel steals Palestinian land.

In 1948, the new state of Israel drove 750,000 Palestinians off their land, making them refugees and continuing to deny their internationally recognized legal right to return. Israel continues to steal Palestinian land to build illegal settlements, expropriating over 250,000 acres since 1967.

[source: BADIL Resource Center (2002), Photo by national Geographic]

Part 1 of 2 ⏭️

#Palestine #Gaza #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #genocide #ecocide

WHAT DOES We PALESTINE HAVE TO DO WITH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE?

APEN - Asian Pacific Environmental Network
ISRAEL'S 75-YEAR OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE IS AN EXAMPLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL APARTHEID.

The Israeli government has forced Palestinians off of their land, stolen their water and natural resources, and used Palestinian towns and villages as a dumping ground for raw sewage and toxic contaminants. 

Source: Institute for Middle East Understanding (2022)
ISRAEL STEALS PALESTINIAN WATER

Israel steals more than 80% of water in the West Bank for use by illegal settlements, denying Palestinians access to water while supplying Israeli settlers with enough water to fill swimming pools, irrigate crops, and wash vehicles.

Source: Amnesty International (2009)
ISRAEL STEALS PALESTINIAN LAND

In 1948, the new state of Israel drove 750,000 Palestinians off their land, making them refugees and continuing to deny their internationally recognized legal right to return. Israel continues to steal Palestinian land to build illegal settlements, expropriating over 250,000 acres since 1967.

Source: BADIL Resource Center (2002)

Photo by national Geographic
das menschy
3 weeks ago

Die Erdölförderung durch #Shell in #Nigeria und die damit verbundene Vernichtung von Lebensgrundlagen (#Ökozid) geht bis heute weiter!

https://cdn2.me-qr.com/pdf/18464311.pdf

#Shell2Hell #Nigeria #Ecocide #EcocideLaw #ShellMustPay

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NIGERIA, OIL AND THE OGONI PEOPLE

Petroleum and derivatives dominate Nigeria's economy forming 98% of exports. Ango-Dutch Shell produces 50% of Nigeria's oil which accounts for almost 14% of the company's global production. 

One of 250 distinct ethnic groups, the Ogoni people of 515.000 (1991 census) live in an area of 404 square miles in Rivers State in the south east of Nigeria, the oil-rich Niger Delta. 

Between 1976 and 1991 official figures quote 2976 oil spills on the Delta as a whole. Combined with atmospheric hydrocarbon pollution, the damage to their staple agriculture and fishing has meant that the Delta people face a stark choice: starvation or resistance. 

In January 1993, 300.000 people led by Ken Saro-Wiwa participated in peaceful marches throughout Ogoniland protesting at 30 years of pollution caused by Shell and its joint venture. 

Shortly afterwards, the Nigerian military occupied the territory. For more than two years - under the dictatorial military rule of General Sani Abacha - the protest campaign went on. 

In 1994 Abachas military government accused Ken Saro-Wiwa and his compatriots of playing a role in the murder of four progovernment Ogoni chiefs. They (were) tried under a special military tribunal. 

On November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nordu Eawo, Paul Leevera, Daniel Bbooko, Darinem Kiobel, Saturday Dobee, Baribor Bera, Felix Nuate and John Kpiune were hanged.
17.5 million litres 

The amount of oil spilled in the Niger Delta, according to Shell's reports (2011). 

4.1 million liters

The amount of oil lost according to Eni reports (2014). 

The slowest time was recorded when Eni took 450 days to respond to a spill in Bayelsa State. For more than a year, oil leaked out of the pipeline into neraby swampland and rivers, contaminating the water people drink and wash with. 

"Whether I live or die is immaterial. It is enough to know that there are people who commit time, money and energy to fight this one evil among so many other predominantin worldwide. If they do not succeed today, they will succeed tomorrow." - Ken Saro-Wiwa
BIJ1
3 weeks ago

#Ecocide is onlosmakelijk verbonden met de Israëlische bezetting van Palestina en de #genocide die zich nu afspeelt in #Gaza.

#Nederland speelt hier direct een rol in door massaal #wapens te leveren aan Israël. Wanneer er op de klimaatmars terecht wordt opgeroepen tot het stoppen van het investeren in de fossiele industrie, zou dit voor de #wapenindustrie niet anders moeten zijn.

De #klimaatcrisis is een koloniale crisis. #Klimaatrechtvaardigheid, nu!

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#Klimaatmars #Kolonialisme #BreekMetDeWapenindustrie #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1

Rat Can't Read (she/her)
4 weeks ago

I think #BodilyAutonomy needs to be a key organizing principle for the #left. It ties together so many issues that seem unrelated: #AbortionRights, #ZeroCovid, #WorkersRights, and #EnvironmentalJustice.

My body should be mine to control, whether that's refusing an unwanted pregnancy, #covid19 infection, working conditions that harm my mental and physical health, or a planet polluted with toxins becoming unliveable due to extreme heat.

There are more issues beyond these that don't impact me directly because of my cis and white privilege, such as #TransRights and #RacialJustice, but I recognize that my fight for bodily autonomy is bound up with these fights. Through the lens of bodily autonomy, there's a lot of opportunities for building #solidarity. Everyone should have bodily autonomy as a #HumanRight.

#USpol #Organizing #Leftwing #Activism #SocialismOrBarbarism #AnotherWorldIsPossible #Socialism #DemocraticSocialism #CovidIsNotOver #pandemic #covid #ClimateChange #Ecocide #EconomicJustice

_noelamac_
1 month ago

@breadandcircuses @jgkoomey On the contrary, imho the carbon budget for 1.5 °C is so small now that it becomes the proof that decision makers, some on purpose some out of ignorance but all because of greed and political fear, have failed and tricked their population since the signing of the Paris Agreement.

#ecocide #climatechange #climatecrimes

Mark
1 month ago

Ukraine is "the first country in history" to investigate the mass destruction of the environment, also known as #ecocide, as a war crime

#Ukraine is working with international partners train Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to investigate ecocide

The goal "to create a mechanism and standards for bringing to justice those who would have the desire to commit the same crimes in another part of the world"

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-aims-to-be-first-to-set-global-standard-of-investigating-ecocide-as-war-crime/

#WarCrimes #russiaInvadedUkraine

Caesar
2 months ago

Everybody knows that this kind of illegal #clearcutting #deforestation happens in the Amazon, but who would have known that even in the #EU there are places where the #ruleoflaw is so weak that private land can be #clearcut against the will of the owner and the police do nothing? And in #Natura2000 protected areas at that.

(Video in Portuguese, but the auto-translated subtitles are mostly reasonable.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01z80ztyEN0

#desertification #ecosystemcollapse #ecocide #savetheforests

Palm Oil Detectives
2 months ago

#News: Transborder haze is a perennial problem in SE #Asia. Legal loopholes make it hard for authorities to eliminate #Indonesia’s slash-and-burn land clearing practices for #timber and #palmoil. Boycott this #ecocide !#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.gulf-times.com/article/669646/international/haze-hits-singapore-as-hot-spots-in-sumatra-increase

#News: Transborder haze is a perennial problem in SE #Asia. Legal loopholes make it hard for authorities to eliminate #Indonesia’s slash-and-burn land clearing practices for #timber and #palmoil. Boycott this #ecocide !#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.gulf-times.com/article/669646/international/haze-hits-singapore-as-hot-spots-in-sumatra-increase
#News: Transborder haze is a perennial problem in SE #Asia. Legal loopholes make it hard for authorities to eliminate #Indonesia’s slash-and-burn land clearing practices for #timber and #palmoil. Boycott this #ecocide !#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.gulf-times.com/article/669646/international/haze-hits-singapore-as-hot-spots-in-sumatra-increase
Andrew Thompson
2 months ago

Our health is on the line, and the clock is ticking. Right now, the #EU is re-evaluating #glyphosate licenses. Join the 3 million-strong appeal to help tip the scales, and get this #deadly #chemical banned.
Petition here:
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/eu_ban_glyphosate_loc/?copy

#Roundup #herbicide #toxic #carcinogen #Monsanto #Bayer #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #noGMO ’s