Open letter to COP 18
By Bill McKibben, Nnimmo Bassey & Pablo Solon. To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves. 2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to declare a ‘planetary emergency,’ and it saw weather patterns wreck harvests around the world, raising food prices by 40% and causing family emergencies in poor households throughout...
High speed train in Val Susa, Italy. The end of the tunnel?
It will be almost 20 years since an entire Italian alpine valley started to resist against the development of a new high-speed train line between Lyon and Turin, the so-called TAV. Decades of resistance characterised by the implementation of multistakeholder cooperation and by the application of the postmodern science as citizenship’s tools for developing alternative proposals for the management of their territory; but also decades of...
South African political economy after Marikana
{EJOLT collaborator Professor Patrick Bond explains the background to the shootings in Marikana where 34 mine workers were shot dead by the police on August 16 and another 270 were arrested and charged of murder.} {He places what happened in a staggering context of a country liberated from official apartheid racism but then soon derailed by neoliberalism and crony capitalism. This blog is a collection of excerpts from his 18-page...
Listen to EJOLT’s podcast
Discover the new EJOLT’s podcasts! Listen to Environmental Justice news whenever you want! This podcasts serie is produced by Firoze Manji for EJOLT, in collaboration with EJOLT partner CCS. All podcasts will be aired on his program Afrobeat, broadcast by WBAI in the US to around 500.000 listeners. GIUSEPPE DE MARZO PRESENTS HIS NEW BOOK “We face the most serious crisis in human history. Never before did these 6 different forms...
Medha Patkar arrested and released unconditionally
Chindwara, November 7 : Today afternoon, Medha Patkar and others were presented infront of the Judicial Magistrate on charges under Section 188, in a packed Court room in heavy presence of police. The town remained tense due to unavoidable and unnecessary situation created by the District Collector and Superintendent of Police. Medha Patkar, stated to CJM Chindwara that the charges under Section 188 has been promulgated much after,...
The rise of a new extractivism and the plea for degrowth
We thought that the “commodity frontiers”, the new mines that we dig on earth to take out the oil, gold, uranium or copper that feeds our consumer economies, are somewhere else; in the “South”, far from us, in the jungles of Amazonian or the desserts of Southern Africa. Well, the frontiers have now come back, next to our homes. We diffuse here an article by Giorgos Kallis, project coordinator of the political ecology project...
