200 Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year

[G_j]

https://apple.news/Ageckw1usSWSkO4s0Rn2ltA

A new report warns of escalating violence against conservationists and protesters, from the U.S. to Africa and beyond.

By Stephen Leahy

Imagine finding out your home was going to be flooded by a new dam or that a new mining project would dump toxic mine waste into your drinking water. What would you do?

At least 200 people were murdered last year for protecting the land, water, and wildlife in their communities, including five park rangers in Africa’s Virunga National Park, which is home to some of the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas. These rarely prosecuted murders are being documented in more countries than ever before—24 countries this year compared to 16 in 2015. Together with criminalizing and aggressively prosecuting protesters, the result is suppression of environmentalists, a new report by the nonprofit group Global Witness argues.

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Criminalization and demonization of protesters is reaching new heights in the U.S., the report found. Last February at the Standing Rock Indian reservation in North Dakota protesters were attacked and injured—one woman lost her arm —by militarized police and the National Guard over construction of an oil pipeline under Lake Oahe, considered a sacred site. Some 800 people now face prosecution for protesting. (See photos of the protesters.)

At the same time North Dakota politicians came close to passing a law allowing drivers to run over and kill environmental protesters without facing jail. North Carolina is about to pass a similar law. The report documents 18 states currently working on new anti-protest laws since the election of President Trump.

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[Moostache]

1. It will get exponentially worse...

200 last year?
2,000 or more inside of the decade is likely...

20,000 a year by 2030? Not a crazy total...maybe a low estimate...
200,000 a year by 2050? Look at the projections for sea-level rise, cross reference the population displacement and look to history to see how well refugees fare...

2,000,000 a year by 2060? Resource wars and arable land destruction almost assuredly make this possible
2,000,000,000 in a nuclear war at the bitter end? Likely endgame if you play out the scenarios to their logical conclusions...


Not too be too morbid, but humanity had our chance to avoid this starting in the 1950's when people KNEW THEN that greenhouse gases would accumulate in the atmosphere and that the effect would be rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

We may have even been able to avoid it in the 1970's with a massive shift away from oil during the embargoes and wars...but nope, had to keep that oil pipeline going...

By the 90's the evidence was becoming truly alarming, yet we cared more about government showdowns and shutdowns and personal go-downs to do anything about it...

The 2000's were spent in a paranoid bubble of hate and war and nothing could get through to the population that we were still killing ourselves and the time to prevent it was running perilously low...

Last decade - the 2010's - the time to act was well past BEFORE the Shit Gibbon and his party of flying monkeys took over and just said "fuck it...too late" and decided to give no future fucks about anything...

There is ALREADY enough Carbon in the atmopsphere to KEEP WARMING THE PLANET FOR DECADES BEYOND WHAT WE ARE SEEING - which is an accelerating warming and feedback loops already underway around the world. The game is over and the future has lost. Those of us alive today will bare some or total witness to the fall of society and the end of man. The only question left is just how much of the horror you will see versus how much of the horror will be your legacy to history.

(Not that things like 'legacy' are going to have any meaning beyond the middle of this century anyway...)

[G_j]

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