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Unsustainable exploitation of Solomon Island's natural reaources 🇸🇧 a great description of the mining, logging and other extractive industries and the exploitation, corruption, and controversies, including sexual exploitation and abuse.

#SolomonIslands #Pacific #SouthPacific #extractives #logging #mining #naturalreaources #climatechange #climatecrisis #USIP

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/11/unsustainable-exploitation-solomon-islands-natural-resources

#MikeLuckovich #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #BigOil #Extractives

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich depicting a world map framed in black and centered on the Americas with black arrows pointing to different parts of the world with text callouts reading "wildfires", "warming oceans", "droughts", "devastating storms", and "mass extinctions". To the right of the map is a large balding White man with black-rimmed glasses, smoking a cigar, wearing a black suit and tie, right arm outstretched toward the map. He is is seated in an overstuffed brown leather chair with a small blond haired boy, to which he says, "Someday, son, this will all be yours...."

#AlGore told us in 2007 that #ClimateChange is our greatest #NationalSecurity threat and no one understood or appreciated what he meant. As we continue to ignore the primary causes of climate change (#Extractives) in favor of greedy, unbridled capitalism, competition for scarce reaources is driving #conflict, inducing #InternationalMigration and adversely affecting those who contribute least to the problem.

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/09/earths-climate-crisis-africa-demands-fairer-sharing-costs

The problem is not just emissions; the problem is the whole fossil fuel extractive industry. #ClimateChange #FossilFuel #Extractives

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/un-chief-fossil-fuel-firms-stop-trying-knee-cap-climate-progress-2023-06-15/

Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/leaked-video-footage-of-ocean-pollution-shines-light-on-deep-sea-mining deep-sea mining is clearly going to be the next mega environmental disaster... #extractives

"An increasing number of young Indigenous people in Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory are leaving their communities behind and turning to illegal gold mining, lured by the promise of small fortunes and a new lifestyle."

Read the full story from Victor Raison and Jean-Mathieu Albertini on Mongabay.

#News #Environment #Amazon #GlobalCommodities #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #Extractives

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indigenous-youths-lured-by-the-illegal-mines-destroying-their-amazon-homeland/

#introduction I am an Assistant #professor of environmental politics at the #university of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I research stuff at the intersection of #environment, #politics, #justice, and #security especially around #conflict, #extractives, and #energy.

#Extractives

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