The WBN mine, in Halmahera, is a joint venture between French mining company Eramet and Chinese company Tsingshan, and is the subject of widespread criticism for operating on the territory of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people without their consent.

#ExtractiveWealthLeadsToDisplacemntAndDegradation #BeyondEV

https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/13934

#BrokenTaillight #racism is #redlined into the #socialfabric: It’s common, though misguided, for US leaders to brush aside comparisons to famously #multimodal cities like Copenhagen and Berlin, insisting that #American #autocentrism is too deeply ingrained to be dislodged. But it’s much harder to dismiss the stunning progress in the European Union’s host #city.

#carfree #beyondEV #subsistence #SelfSufficient

A Belgian Lesson in Taming the Automobile https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-16/from-traffic-choked-brussels-a-model-for-driving-less