Posts Tagged ‘resource wars’
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Wangari Maathai warns about resource conflicts: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight”
Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you. [15:39] …
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James Lovelock: “I hope we are civilised when climate disaster strikes”
The Inter Press Service has an interesting interview with James Lovelock, known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, about everything from the IPCC to geo-engineering and climate tipping points. Lovelock has earlier said that he believes that climate change is now …
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A Drop of Life: Short film about water conflict
“As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures – between a culture that values water as a shared sacred source of all life and a corporate culture that regards …
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Indigenous Peruvians and police in deadly clashes at oil and mining protests
Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… …
