Toban Black

(Photo by “fotdmike“)

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“SocProf” at the Global Sociology Blog -
“Colonial Dumping”
“Nice New International Division of Labor we got here: we produce garbage and we send it to poor countries” …

John “Ahni” Schertow at the Intercontinental Cry blog -
“Threatening the Land and People of Chiapas” (December, 2008)

WorldFish -
“Climate change means ‘unprecedented hardship’ for 33 fish-dependent nations”

Miriam Mannak for the Inter Press Service -
“Africa: Why The Richest Continent Is Also The Poorest” (September, 2008)

A poster about
rainforest extraction equipment

Kimberley D. Mok on the TreeHugger blog -
“Logging, Palm Oil and Human Rights in Borneo: Malaysian Government Pushes Ahead By Ousting Indigenous Leaders” (September, 2008)

Michel Chossudovsky on the Global Research web site -
“War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields” (January, 2009)

Press TV -
“Iraq: US war caused environmental disaster” (October, 2008)

Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog -
“NATO’s New Frontier” (January, 2009)
There is a “new military and resource conflict of the Arctic.” …

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A couple of related posts on this blog -
- “Iraqi oil”
- “Canadian oil supplies; American priorities“

Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood -

“It’s no longer helpful to speak about ‘environmental issues,’ as if we face discrete problems that have clear solutions. Without major changes to the way humans live, we face the collapse of the ecosystem’s ability to sustain human life as we know it. Every basic indicator of the health of the ecosystem is cause for concern — inadequate and dwindling supplies of clean water, chemical contamination in every part of the life cycle, continuing topsoil loss, toxic waste build-up, species loss and reduced biodiversity, and climate change.”

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Thomas Kostigen (who seems to be focusing on Americans) -

“There is more to being green than the fight to stop global warming. All of our [biosphere is] in peril because of what we do and what that does to our planet. Yet, to hear the battle cry of environmentalists these days you’d think there’s only one war to be fought — over our energy supply and its consequences.

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