[:en]A Review of ‘Land Grabbing – The Movie’[:]
Nov24

[:en]A Review of ‘Land Grabbing – The Movie’[:]

[:en][By Jonah Wedekind on Entitleblog.org] Land Grabbing by Kurt Langbein offers a razor sharp visualization of the tremendous drivers and tragic dramas of mega investments in land. The new documentary Land Grabbing (Landraub) by Kurt Langbein is in cinemas across Europe this autumn and winter. The rush for land took off years ago, with the food and fuel price hikes of 2008. Perhaps the topic of land grabbing has been somewhat...

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[:en]War and cover up in the Amazon[:]
Nov23

[:en]War and cover up in the Amazon[:]

[:en][By Felipe Milanez on Entitleblog.org] FUNAI, Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation, is accused of ignoring a serious conflict between two indigenous tribes in the Amazon. Two hours after the original version of this text was published in Carta Capital, FUNAI informs about first contact omitting information about massacre. A “tribal war,” following the omission of the state, reportedly provoked a massacre of members of the...

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[:en]The Left should embrace degrowth[:]
Nov17

[:en]The Left should embrace degrowth[:]

[:en][By Giorgios Kallis on Newint.org] Degrowth is a frontal attack on the ideology of economic growth. Some call it a critique: a slogan or a ‘missile word’. Others talk of the ‘theory of’ – or the ‘literature on’ – degrowth; or of degrowth policies’. Many see themselves as the ‘degrowth movement’ or claim they live ‘the degrowth way’. What is degrowth and where did it come from? Origins Intellectually, the origins of degrowth are...

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[:en]EJOLT Report 23: Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris[:]
Ott10

[:en]EJOLT Report 23: Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris[:]

[:en][ ejolt.org] The full report can be downloaded here. Abstract The climate and environmental justice debates are heating up ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, scheduled for December this year in Paris. In theory, the conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change, from all the nations of the world. However, within the United Nations Framework Convention on...

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[:en]A rig too far[:]
Ott08

[:en]A rig too far[:]

[:en][ on economist.com] OIL companies have a proud history of digging holes in inaccessible places and producing gushers of money. But in the Chukchi Sea, in the Alaskan Arctic, Shell has poured $7 billion into a single 6,800-foot exploratory well, making it possibly the most expensive hole yet drilled, only to admit this week that it had not found enough oil and gas to make further exploration worthwhile.   That was a big...

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[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]
Ott06

[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]

[:en][By Camila Rolando Mazzuca on ejolt.org] Today’s world energy production mainly derives from non-renewable sources and represents up to 47% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions for the 2000s decade. These emissions reinforce the inequalities between low income populations, whose environment and health are usually the most affected by it, and the profits made by fossil-fuel corporations. While threatening the climate and...

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