NEWS
Road Network Spreads Destruction Across Amazon
Editor's note: Roads in the middle of wildlife, both illegal and legal, cause habitat fragmentation. This, in turn, impacts wildlife. They disturb migration routes of many animals. Many die in roadkill. Some are more likely to be killed than others, affecting the...
Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Leaders Demand Climate and Racial Justice
More than 50 indigenous and Afro-descendant representatives of the Black and Indigenous Liberation Movement (BILM) call on the States of the Americas to address climate change from a differentiated, non-discriminatory justice perspective that addresses historical...
Approval of Deep Sea Mining Test Despite Concerns
Editor's Note: Deep sea mining is being pursued on the pretext of a transition towards a "cleaner" source of energy. This transition is being hailed as "the solution" to all environmental problems by the majority of the environmental movement. The irony of "the...
ACTION
Britain’s New Eco-Sabotage Group
Editor's note: In these dire times, we are glad to see increasing adoption of and advocacy for eco-sabotage. However, when it comes to tactics and strategy, context matters. No tactic can be judged as "effective" or "ineffective" in isolation. Goals, assumptions, and...
Eco-Terrorist or Water Protector? Jessica Reznicek Appeals Terrorism Charges
Oral arguments for a federal appeal in the high profile case of environmental activist Jessica Reznicek will be heard by the 8th circuit court of appeal on May 13. In a defining moment for the climate justice movement and for all civil rights, the court will decide...
How to Organize: The Spectrum of Allies
Editor's note: The following conceptual tool is designed to help community organizers to categorize community groups, businesses, government bodies, and individuals along a "spectrum of allies." This exercise teaches a fundamental tenet of community organizing: that...
ANALYSIS
How Science Caused Climate Collapse
Editor's note: Science, touted to be objective, is far from so. As Lewis Mumford explains and Derrick writes extensively in Myth of Human Supremacy, any tool cannot be separated from the overall social structure under which it was created and operates. Likewise,...
Subsistence Communities: Destroyers or Protectors of Forests?
Editor's Note: The following Mongabay article is based on a recent study that found that marginalized subsistence communities are driving deforestation due to poverty. The article also writes that deforestation caused by these communities cannot still be compared to...
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Pacific
Editor's note: The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, was one of the worst nuclear accidents of the twenty-first century to date. Nevertheless, worse ones might come in the future. In the quest for energy to fuel the machine,...
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