How 19th-century pineapple plantations turned Maui into a tinderbox
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/maui-wildfire-water-plantations-ecology?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Hawaii #Water #capitalism #extractiveeconomy #maui #wildfires #MauiStrong
Around the world, researchers are fighting a losing battle to save the world’s #linguistic #diversity. The most optimistic estimates suggest that half the estimated 5,000 #languages spoken today, from Siberia to the Australian Outback, Africa to the Amazon, could vanish by the end of the century.
https://rainforestjournalismfund.org/stories/race-extract-indigenous-language-its-last-lucid-speaker
#Deforestation #Degradation #Displacement #pollutioncrisis #ExtractiveEconomy
