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Will the nuclear decommissioning happen faster than sea level change and storm surges? How easy and efficient is it to decomission a nuclear power plant?

Updated Jun 5, 2020, 8:34 AM

Massive oil spill affecting the Arctic

Updated Jun 4, 2020, 9:17 PM

We can't breathe? Yeah

Updated Jun 4, 2020, 8:49 PM

Powerful message delivered by a medical Doctor with really excellent creativity. Don't ever - Lose yourself shared by Doctors for #ExtinctionRebellion really worth the time.

https://youtu.be/lnmfuKZdQkI

Updated Jun 4, 2020, 8:23 PM

This action has been cancelled.

Updated Jun 3, 2020, 5:19 AM

What does it mean to move out of comfort zones? If we can't even critically challenge our own positions with regards to in group out group relations are we actually following the XR principles? This is a journey of self discovery and the path to becoming more enlightened might take one through some difficult areas. The challenge of a global rebellion which we need is real- what type of movement is XR and can it overcome the challenges within? #RebelForLife #FutureGenerations Reflection on the guiding principles is very important. We must not let life go quietly - we are diverse and we need to be strong in our diversity - not let it destroy any hope of change.

Updated Jun 2, 2020, 2:04 PM

NEW XR VIDEO!!!
The Extinction Rebellion Talk: Climate Crisis + Social Science for change 🐝
YT: https://xrb.link/cM5EC2 🎥
A talk on the climate & ecological emergency, and the social science to turn this around.
Hope you all enjoy and share this amazing work!

Updated May 30, 2020, 3:00 PM

From the ask-a-scientist online event
https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionRebellion/videos/613384419386386/

Updated May 30, 2020, 12:42 PM

This is happening today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qj6svBkNJ4&feature=youtu.be

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We experience swarms of locusts, the floods, sea-level rise, the droughts, the forest fires, who knows the next events we are going to face, we have seen extreme weather pattern more frequently these days. Which affect agriculture and food security, water quality and scarcity on the continent, among other things. However, it goes beyond food security and our economies, climate change is causing civil unrest; the shrinking Lake Chad, a resultant effect of the changing climate. This has contributed to hostility among communities living around Lake Chad.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/a-climate-action-wake-up-call-for-all-african-leaders/

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https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/renewables-cant-power-capitalism-they-can-power-ecosocialism/ A vision of a different future

https://www.facebook.com/ScientistsForExtinctionRebellion/ Ask a scientist

"With South Africa under a 3 week coronavirus lockdown, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has gazetted sulphur dioxide (S02) air pollution standards (called minimum emission standards, or MES) that are twice as weak as the previous standards.

Instead of Eskom, Sasol, and other facilities with coal boilers, having to meet the original SO2 standard of 500 mg/Nm3, they will now only be required to comply with MES doubly as weak (1000 mg/Nm3). The new limit will apply either by tomorrow – 1 April 2020, or by the delayed dates that these companies have already been given by the National Air Quality Officer.

Research presented by the Life After Coal Campaign to the Minister and the Department has shown that 3,300 premature deaths would be caused by doubling the SO2 standard just for Eskom’s coal-fired power stations, as a result of increased risk of lower respiratory infections, increased risk of stroke, and increased risk of death from diabetes.

The weakening of the standard makes South Africa’s 2020 SO2 standard – which exists to protect people’s health and human rights – about 28 times more lax than in China, and 10 times weaker than India’s.

The sequence of events
For more than six years, the Life After Coal Campaign has been opposing efforts by industry – in particular the two biggest polluters, Eskom and Sasol – to delay and evade meeting more stringent air pollution standards. When the MES were first promulgated in 2010, despite their active participation in the multi-year process to set them, both Eskom and Sasol sought to be completely exempt from the MES. Subsequent to that failed attempt, and instead of making the investments required to meet the standards, both companies have brought multiple applications to the National Air Quality Officer in the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries – the majority of which have succeeded – to delay compliance with the MES. In 2014, Sasol brought a court application seeking to set aside the majority of the MES in their entirety – which it withdrew when it was allowed by the National Air Quality Officer to postpone MES compliance......."

Updated May 26, 2020, 12:21 PM

'Alberta’s energy minister says it’s a good time to build a pipeline because public-health restrictions limit protests against them.

Sonya Savage made the comment Friday on a podcast hosted by the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors. She was asked about progress of the Trans Mountain Expansion project, which is under construction on its route between Edmonton and Vancouver.

“Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more than 15 people,” Ms. Savage said. “Let’s get it built.”

While the interviewer laughed, Ms. Savage did not.

Unprompted, Ms. Savage went on to suggest that the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic favours pipeline construction.

“People are not going to have tolerance and patience for protests that get in the way of people working,” she said on the podcast, which was posted on the association’s website. “People need jobs and those types of ideological protests that get in the way are not going to be tolerated by ordinary Canadians.”

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#ExtinctionRebellion #AfricaDay #StopDeforestation #SaveCongoRainForest #StopTheMaangamizi #AfricaUnite

Updated May 25, 2020, 1:57 PM

Lusuku lwe-Afrika i-25 kaMeyi kwaye i-XRMzantsi ime ngokuqinileyo nabanye abakwiXR.

Intlonipho enkulu kunye nenkxaso kubo bonke abo bamele uBomi kulamaxesha obunzima.

Elinqanaba lokuqala lentsholongwane liqala ukubonisa ngokwenyani okubalulekileyo.

Ukuhlonipha kakhulu abanyangi, abathuthi, abo bondla abanye, abantu abazama ukugcina izinto
zikhuselekile kwaye zicocekile kunye nabo bagcina izibonelelo nezakhiwo zoluntu.

Simele ubomi kwaye sizicel ‘umngeni kwinkqubo nenkqubo enetyhefu.

Abantu balambile kwaye baphethwe yindlala, iphi imali ye-COVID19 yesiqabu? Ingxowa mali yesiqabu
se-COVID19 ebekelwe ukunceda abasweleyo nabangakwaziyo ukuzimela. Kutheni lento sixhomekeka
kwizenzo zabantu abangamagorha kuluntu ukondla abalambileyo?

Vula iPalament phambi kokuba uvule izikolo. Sifuna impendulo kwaye kuphendulwe ngeminyaka
yenkohliso norhwaphilizo.

Kufuneka SIBUMBANE kwaye siqokelelane sihlale ndawonye njengeAfrika kunye nenxalenye yoBomi
eMhlabeni.

“Uqoqosho lokwenyani luqoqosho lokukhathalela iplanet yethu nokukhathalelana umntu ngamnye
nomnye” – uVandana Shiva.

Ndingathanda ukucebisa ngonxibelelwano olucacileyo nolunoxolo lokuququzelela imigangatho emincinci
ukuya ekwakheni ubomi bokuqinisekisa kunye neenkqubo zokuhlaziya.
#Yibanenceba #Ukuphelisai-Maangamizi #ThathaUxanduvaLokuphendula #UtshintshoLwezenkqubo
#UbulungisabeMoyezulu #IngenisoEsisisekoSendaloIphela #HloniphaUbomi #UkupheliswaImvukelo
#AfrikaManyanani #MakwenziweUmthethowe-ecocode

Emzantsi Afrika sithanda ukukhumbuza abo basemagunyeni ukuba salwa kanzima ngomgaqo-siseko
wethu omtsha kwaye ungowona mthetho ophakamileyo kwesi sizwe.
Asizange silwele urhulumente wamapolisa akhonza iimfuno zabacinezeli behlabathi abanamandla.

Icandelo lama-24 lomthetho wamalungelo:

Wonke ubani unelungelo -
(a) lokungqongwa yindalo engenabungozi kwimpilo yakhe okanye kwintlalontle yakhe;
(b) lokuba indalo emngqongileyo ikhuselwe ukuze kuncedeke izizukulwana zangoku nezizayo,
ikhuselwe ngamanyathelo ezomthetho afanelekileyo, kwakunye namanye amanyathelo -
(i) anqanda ukugcoliswa nokudodobaliswa kwendalo;
(ii) akhuthaza ulondolozo lwendalo; kanjalo
(iii) aqinisekisa uphuhliso oluhlala luqhuba lwezendalo kunye nokusetyenziswa kwamajelo ezendalo
lo gama kukhuthazwa uphuhliso olulungileyo lwezoqoqosho nezen

Updated May 24, 2020, 1:56 PM

Why Green Anarchy?

Updated May 22, 2020, 5:50 PM

It's Africa Day 25th May and XRMzansi stand in solidarity with others in XR

Huge respect and support to all those standing up for Life in these difficult times.

This first wave of the virus is starting to really show us what is valuable.

Much respect to the healers, the transporters, those feeding others, the people trying to keep things safe and clean and those maintaining public infrastructure.

We stand for life and openly challenge ourselves and the toxic system.

People are hungry and starving where is the money for COVID19 relief why are we relying on the deeds of heroic people in society to feed the hungry?

Open Parliament before the schools we want accountability for the years of corruption.

Unite and organise together as Africa and as part of Life on Earth

“The real economy is an economy of care, for the planet and for each other" - Vandana Shiva

We would like to advocate for clear and peaceful communication for organizing at the smallest levels to move towards building life affirming and regenerative systems.
#BeKind #StopTheMaangamizi #Accountability #SystemChange #ClimateJustice #UniversalBasicIncome #RespectLife #ExtinctionRebellion #AfricaUnite #MakeEcocideLaw

In South Africa we would like to remind those in power that we fought hard for our new constitution and it is the highest law in this nation.

We did not struggle for a police state which serve the interests of the global neoliberal oppressors.

Section 24 of the Bill of Rights:

Environment 24. Everyone has the right—

(a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or wellbeing; and

(b) to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that-

(i) prevent pollution and ecological degradation;

(ii) promote conservation; and

(iii) secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development

https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/SAConstitution-web-eng.pdf

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There are different ways of being that have been established by co-evolution and we can learn from them. #SystemChange #RebelForLife

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Renee Scheltema is.....
'Happy to announce a free ONLINE THEATRICAL SCREENING OF THE NEW VERSION OF “NORMAL IS OVER THE MOVIE 1.1, with Extinction Rebellion Mzansi. All audience members will be watching at the same time. The film Normal Is Over The Movie will be followed by a live Q & A with Filmmaker, Renee Scheltema, & Professor @Nicholas King, Environmental futurist. Thanks both and Facilitator @Stephen.Murcott'

#NormalisOver #RebelforLife #ExtinctionRebellion #Westillalive #ExtinctionRebellionMzansi

Updated May 19, 2020, 7:06 PM

Brilliant Article

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How do you feel about the way the Disaster Management Act being implemented? Families are literally separated because they were working in different provinces. Police brutality and oppression of the most vulnerable have been out of control. This lock down shines a light on abuse and violence by the state security forces. There seems to be an accountability crisis. "FOR NOW, we are a constitutional democracy." #GetAweh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T48grq9w

Updated May 3, 2020, 12:54 PM

'Austria’s new ruling coalition may prove to be a short-lived marriage of convenience for all involved. But it also illustrates that if and when right-wing nationalists accept the apocalyptic climate claims of progressive environmentalists, the results are unlikely to be particularly progressive. For a generation, it has been an article of faith among many progressives that climate denial is a tactic adopted by the Right because to accept the reality of climate science would force them to embrace policies they otherwise loathe. Conservatives deny climate science, Naomi Oreskes has claimed, “because they fear it will be used as an excuse to expand the reach of government.”[1]Climate deniers, Naomi Klein famously argued in The Nation magazine, “did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot.” Rather, she argued, “They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their ‘free market’ belief system.”[2]'

Updated May 1, 2020, 6:31 PM

Wonder how much they expose the impact of light pollution on insects or pesticide use in agribusiness? "In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. The international wildlife trade creates bogus markets at the expense of creatures that have survived on this planet for millions of years. And the other surrounds us, hiding in plain sight — a world that the oil and gas companies don’t want the rest of us to see. Using covert tactics and state-of-the-art technology, the Racing Extinction team exposes these two worlds in an inspiring affirmation to preserve life as we know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxyrLUdcss"

Updated Apr 28, 2020, 1:22 AM

The crisis of the commons, it's time to make ecocide law and hold the polluters accountable.

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More power DMG! the existence of this album is testament to a changing narrative. For a future fit for generations to come check it out. #NormalisOver #COVID19 #RebelForLife #ExtinctionRebellion

Updated Apr 22, 2020, 11:58 AM

The promise of water is really something we need @[194109891221:274:South African Government] to keep. Now you have R500 billion we want to see that all vulnerable communities are looked after.

"South Africa has serious water inequalities. The drought made this worse and the ANC government did not respond effectively. In the midst of Covid 19, Minister Sisulu has committed to rolling out 41 000 water tanks and to prioritising the needs of water stressed communities during the lock down. With input from you we are developing a map and directory of where water stress exists in the context of the lock down. If you are experiencing water issues in your community, tell us about your experience and share your pictures with us. We will place your data on the map and update it frequently. We will escalate this information to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, the President and Disaster Management Council to demand immediate action as the lockdown unfolds. South Africa will get hotter and drier with climate change. Now is the time to win our constitutional rights to water, which have been denied for too long. #WaterForAll"

https://www.safsc.org.za/water-stressed-communities-map/

Updated Apr 22, 2020, 11:49 AM

The pace of change is accelerating and COVID19 is not the only thing with an exponential growth potential - so is heat. While we are locked in our homes the extraction of oil, gas and coal continues and the destruction of the forests goes on. The war machine is not stopping either. Be kind in this time. #DeepAdaptation #ExtinctionRebellion "Research into what’s happening in East Antarctica is still in its early stages. It’s hard to decipher what exactly is taking place on a gigantic continent of ice with just a few decades of satellite data and limited actual measurements of things like snowfall and ocean temperatures. But according to one controversial paper released earlier this year, East Antarctica is now, in fact, shrinking, and is already responsible for 20 percent of the continent’s ice loss.

For decades, researchers considered this portion of the continent to be stable. While warming sea and air temperatures have caused ice shelves and glaciers in the lower-altitude, warmer western regions of the Antarctic to melt and collapse, the larger, colder East had seemed an untouchable behemoth. If anything, climate change was expected to bring more snow to its interior, making its ice sheets grow in size." https://e360.yale.edu/features/polar-warning-even-antarctica-coldest-region-is-starting-to-melt

Updated Apr 20, 2020, 12:37 PM

We must have courage in these times of change. "Greenhouse emissions include more than just carbon dioxide; methane gas in the atmosphere also contributes to global warming. And while there may be far less methane in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is much better at holding in heat. For this reason, scientists have been attempting to find out how much of an impact rising temperatures may have on the world's wetlands."

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-global-methane-emissions-wetlands-percent.html

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#NormalIsOver #RebelForLife #DeepAdaptation

Updated Apr 6, 2020, 11:46 AM

The South should stop pandering to the IMF and World Bank. The blatant underdevelopment and exploitation must be called out and those responsible held to account. The crimes against humanity and the planet perpetrated by these institutions are evident in the brutality of the neoliberal hegemony. The system which has elevated arms companies above nation states and put over 80% of the capital in the hands of less than 1% of the people. We need to go to the IMF and take them to the ICC for crimes of knowingly participating in economic sabotage - all their minions should be exposed and their off shore accounts emptied making reparations to those who have been wronged. #RebelForLife for a future fit for generations to come. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-31-stop-dancing-to-moodys-tune

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In a time of major changes to the Earth we should try to do our best to be compassionate and caring to those around us.

The terrible virus stealing the oxygen from people's lungs reminds me of the impact of industrial civilization on the life support systems which create ozone. The exponential heating is like a fever. I am thinking of all my friends and family and all the people I will never know at this time and feeling connection and love.

We are all part of this amazing existence on this beautiful but angry planet This time is very precious and the clarion call to warn others about what is happening is still ringing.

We can't get out and do direct action for change but perhaps this is a good time to reflect on what adaptation to minimize harm might look like and create our own new visions of a future fit for generations to come. #DeepAdaptation #HealingOfNations #ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife #OneLove #BeKind

Updated Mar 27, 2020, 7:43 PM

South Africa’s lockdown has not been preceded by mass testing despite the two-month lead time the South African government had since the outbreak in China. Even as the country goes into lockdown, the costs of tests are prohibitive, there has been no clear communication about international partnerships to get testing going on a mass scale, there is no clear messaging on testing details and grassroots civil society has not been mobilised, despite its enthusiasm to rise to the challenge.

Instead, the lockdown has shifted the focus to managing economic chaos, mitigation measures and privatised charity through a “solidarity fund”. Deep anxiety, fear and insecurity is running through society. South Africa is going into the lockdown as one of the most unequal countries in the world.

The crisis of socio-ecological reproduction is deep as expressed through high levels of structural unemployment, intra-African income inequality, hunger and water inequalities (54% of South African households do not have access to clean water through a tap in their homes). Thanks to @[100016491257390:2048:Vishwas Satgar] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-25-covid-19-the-climate-crisis-and-lockdown-an-opportunity-to-end-the-war-with-nature/

Updated Mar 26, 2020, 6:10 PM

#SaveCongoRainforest #StopGBV #ClimateRape This is the time for action. #ClimateJustice for Africa - reparations for the oppression and underdevelopment - accountability for ecocide and fueling conflict #ExtinctionRebellion

Updated Mar 9, 2020, 7:55 AM

Geoengineering is not as creepy as many try to make it seem, but it definitely is a non-solution established by oligarchs and politicians to justify their continued pollution of the planet, with geoengineering to clean up behind them.
https://blog.ecosia.org/tech-geoengineering-carbon-capture/

Updated Feb 27, 2020, 12:42 PM

Please send your objections even if you do not live in the area. You can adapt from the template below. ⏳🙏

Updated Feb 27, 2020, 12:24 PM

THE DEAD SOUTH...

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The only thing that could stop the Aus fires...more extreme weather in the form of a flood.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51420500

Updated Feb 14, 2020, 4:18 PM

Pretty Lit. How on earth do we bring the message clear enough, big enough and loud enough. Imagine it was in real life, a whale protest. 😢They are near extinction and with out them in the ocean we will die. They take more carbon out the atmosphere than most everything. The entire ocean relies on whales. We rely on the ocean for oxygen and for climate moderation.

Updated Feb 12, 2020, 7:14 PM

Ready

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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
— Leonardo da Vinci

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Vegans gonna love this 😉😊❤️

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Solidarity with the water protectors.

Updated Feb 10, 2020, 10:51 AM

Coming full circle now..... Planetary climate breakdown, at the edge of Extinction there has to be love and compassion. We stand together broken hearted on a planet we know nothing about anymore...we might as well be sending our children to outer space....

Updated Feb 10, 2020, 10:50 AM

Corporations stop at nothing, they will use national police to enforce their occupations of pipelines etc.

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Children won't protect what they not taught to love....

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The Agents of Extinction in action again.

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Horror in the wake of Coronavirus worldwide.....say no more

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"There is this assumption that psychedelics will turn one into a liberal kind of person with liberal kinds of views... I don’t think psychedelics are going to fundamentally change society in this way, they aren’t going to change the world. The forces of capitalism and consumerism are far, far greater than those of psychedelics. The juggernaut trundles on regardless and turns everything to its own purposes; this is what I see happening with the current medicalisation and commodification of psychedelics."

Updated Feb 7, 2020, 11:28 PM

"Scientists agree that Earth is at the outset of a mass extinction event—only the 6th in half-a-billion years—which could drive a million species, or one-in-eight, into oblivion over the coming decades or centuries."

#eyesopen #rebelforlife #rewildearth

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Things are heating up real fast in the Deep Deep South

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Welcome To The Yangtze: A Source Of Life, And Now Death, For 400 Million Chinese Residents
By Erin Kelly
Published January 30, 2020
China's Yangtze River, the third-longest in the world, is now so polluted that nearly half the people who depend on it are without safe drinking water.

The Yangtze River has become one of the most polluted rivers — if not the most polluted river — in the world. Half of China's 20,000 chemical factories are distributed along the Yangtze.

A dead pig lies in a dirty tributary of the Yangtze. As of 2010, agricultural pollution, for instance from animal waste, surpassed industrial waste as China's main pollutant.

Water has been a source of both life and death for a generation in Shenqiu country, a region fed by a tributary of the Yangtze.

Controlling pollution in China is an enormous undertaking, but the government is working to nonetheless.

The critically-endangered Yangtze finless porpoise is one of the world's few freshwater porpoise sub-species...and the only aquatic mammal left in the Yangtze.

Algae floats in the Hanjiang river, a tributary of the Yangtze, after rain-triggered floods in central China's Hubei province. Algal blooms are often caused by a surplus of nitrogen in a body of water which itself is usually a product of livestock runoff. Nitrogen increases the production of algae which can then use up too much oxygen in a given body of water, choking fish or exposing them to toxins as well.

Residents along China's Yangtze River are faced with a deadly choice.

Villagers can either drink its heavily-polluted waters or shoulder the expense of buying bottled water. With that cost often too great and with nearby factories only adding to the pollution, these towns have consequently been branded as "cancer villages," as instances of stomach, throat, and liver-related cancers have affected residents at a rate two to three times China's national average.

The Yangtze is China's largest and the world's third-longest river. It supports over 400 million people and is, unfortunately, perhaps the world's most polluted river accounting for 55 percent of the material that ends up in the adjacent seas and ocean.

This amount of plastic has disastrous consequences for wildlife as well. Animals in the areas surrounding the river have been found with microplastics in their stomachs, slowly killing them.

The Chinese paddlefish, for instance, are creatures that have alive since the time of the dinosaurs, having survived more than 200 million years of Earth's seismic shifts. But in the last few decades, these living fossils have gone extinct as a result of the pollution in its native habitat.

Indeed, the situation in the Yangtze is so dire that the prehistoric fish which outlived the dinosaurs has been obliterated by man.

China's Struggle With Pollution
On March 4, 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared that China would wage war against the smog. By 2017, he asserted, the government planned to convert homes in major cities from coal-burning heat to natural gas in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.

But roughly four decades of booming economic growth has turned China into the world's biggest carbon offender. The government has been trying to eliminate this pollution without damaging its economy.

This is obviously no simple task. In 2015, a research study by Berkeley Earth found that China's air pollution was responsible for 1.6 million deaths per year. That accounts for 17 percent of all the deaths in the country.

An Al Jazeera report explores how the pollution in the Yangtze is killing people in East China.
There's still a long road ahead for China because while the air is improving, it's still not healthy.

Besides, then there's the whole issue of water pollution.

The Yangtze River Pollution
Factory Along The Yangtze
Wikimedia Commons
A factory along the Yangtze River puts residents at further risk of pollution.

Just ten rivers worldwide account for providing 90 percent of the plastic that winds up in the oceans. The Yangtze was reported at one point to be the worst of them, transporting up to 1.5 million metric tons of plastic into the Pacific. In contrast, the Thames carries about 18 tons of plastic.

The Yangtze's rate of pollution is perhaps matched by Indonesia's Citarum River, whose dense pollutants are contained to a smaller area and whose fish population has dropped off nearly 60 percent since 2008.

The Yangtze is vast; fed by roughly 700 tributaries. All of these contribute to the overall level of pollution that eventually bleeds into the Pacific Ocean. This particular travel pattern of pollutants forms what's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, (GPGP) or the Pacific trash vortex.

Annually, the Yangtze transports 2.5 billion metric tons of goods, making it also the busiest inland river in the world. China's highly-consumerist lifestyle means its waste management system can't keep up with all the single-use plastics it produces and so these products wind up in the waterways. It's pretty much the same story the world over but if things continue at the current pace, then by 2050, the number of plastics in the ocean will outweigh the amount of fish.

This is the same year that a report finds climate change will reach doomsday proportions.

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Wonder if it will work to wake up people in general....

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The Priorities, right moving on then....

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Simon Be shared this article and Wrote:

RIP James "Iggy" Fox

'Died unexpectedly during anti poacher training in S. Africa.'

As the grief takes residence in my guts and the wash of loss deepens I'm remembering what an amazingly dedicated human Iggy was when it came to what he loved most.
Our natural world.
He fought hard in many ways, either as a conservation scientist in Costa Rica, as a film maker or as an activist.
He was always at the front lines, leading by example, locking on, causing peaceful mischief and doing his best to live up to the convictions he held so dearly.
Gone to meet the ancestors way too soon.
In a beautuful example of serendipity last night a fox Snuck past cops in Parliament and pawed its way to the 4th floor, taking dumps along the way.
Iggy would have loved that.

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PART ONE: VERY IMPORTANT

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Very important extinction rebellion video. A must watch, don't miss this one

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The only thing left to do, is to have a rebellion...

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Worth watching #ExtinctionRebellion http://mobilize.earth/

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Boris Johnson "inequality is necessary"

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By Malaika Mahlatsi...

When we stood up as students and rendered this country ungovernable a few years ago demanding that #FeesMustFall we believed that opening doors of learning required only that tuition fees are scrapped. I am sitting here now with hundreds of unread emails and the knowledge that I'm only going to be able to help less than 10% of these students, and I'm realising that we fought a noble cause, but we only scratched the surface. I am telling you now, we have a crisis in this country. Our crisis is not just fee free education, our crisis is INSTITUTIONALISED, GENERATIONAL and STRUCTURAL poverty.

We have students who have NSFAS, who got "free" education and accommodation, but who are faced with unimaginable suffering still. NSFAS will only give them money later in the month. They are starving. They cannot wait for later. Young women don't have toiletries. Students don't have money to get to school. Students are begging for R200 grocery vouchers, they can't even call their families back home because they left empty cupboards and unemployed parents there. Even with funding, how are students supposed to perform under such severe conditions of dehumanising and de-civilising poverty?

We fought a noble cause. I am proud of my own contributions to the #FeesMustFall struggle. But we fought a fraction of the problem. The problem was not just expensive education, the problem was and is capitalism. Expensive education was a symptom. This system is unsustainable and undesirable. It is inhuman and demeaning. The levels of inequality that see someone beg for R200 for food and another spend R2 million on a car, or someone beg for R70 for taxi fare to get to university while another buys a handbag for R70 000 are debilitating. For humanity to live capitalism must die. It is not workable.

By Malaika Mahlatsi

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All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!

https://theecologist.org/2014/nov/22/want-double-world-food-production-return-land-small-farmers?fbclid=IwAR17pph8yADg39jWIYcLIeN9M13a5mD_bzU6UDpnsS81EOcBIn3YHFrHfqQ

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"If we do not choose sides this is the future. We must join the poor and rise up against the psychopathic wealthy class and demand common ground for all humanity and a cessation of the production of useless stuff … if we do not get it together to heal the world collectively this is undoubtedly where we are heading and it will not be stopped."

Read the whole piece here:

The future is not for softies. The best skills you can teach your young kids now are endurance and survival skills. Teach them how to live without water for days, how to protect themselves physically, how to forage in rubbish dumps and parks, how to live on little food, how to hide in shadows, how to trade and bargain, how to take from the rich what is rightfully theirs. Teach them extreme fighting skills to protect themselves.

Our future is apocalyptic because we are middle class. The poor already live an apocalyptic reality. The middle classes imagine that they are untouchable but they are expendable. It is the already impoverished ones who will survive what is coming because they live this reality right under our bourgeois noses.

The soft, the old, the indulgent, the unfit, the stupid, will be eaten. There will be no buffer zones between the super wealthy and the poor. It will be them and us. The future is all about class – it is raceless. The future for the masses is survival of the fittest under the most extreme conditions.

The middle classes will be the cause of this apocalyptic future because they squander people’s power and forego will to change the world. Instead they choose a life of empty consumerism and ego based accolades and comfort and material delusion. They buy their homes and their cars and their clothes and go on holiday and all the while the world is disintegrating around them but they do not care enough to change it. They ignore the great unwashed and the fact that they are already living this future.

We all know this. It is the dis-ease that fuels our consumption. We know this and yet we do not get it together to stop them.

The middle class thrives on obtuseness. It is what we are trained to do. We are the slaves of the upper classes. We think our degrees and promotions and looks and manicured lawns and new cars and cultivated cleverness makes us special – but in truth we are the most empty and manipulated lot – seduced by product into forgetting what it means to be authentically and fully human.

We all have the Marie Antoinette complex. Faux revolutions are engaged in to acquire more access to this endless avarice. Impotent outrage is a common pastime because it is more about ego and want of approval than the urgency of saving what is our human birthright

In truth we are controlled by the rich, by media, by outmoded educational systems, by race and gender binary classifications, sugar, refined foods, low self-esteem and delusional representations of ourselves.

We are not even human anymore. We are consuming robots controlled by the 10%. This my friends is our greatest weakness, our greatest sin, our lack of humanity.

If we do not choose sides this is the future. We must join the poor and rise up against the psychopathic wealthy class and demand common ground for all humanity and a cessation of the production of useless stuff … if we do not get it together to heal the world collectively this is undoubtedly where we are heading and it will not be stopped.

When the forests are gone – when the dolphins and polar bears and frogs are dead – when the last few indigenous animist communities around the world are no more – we will all be psychopaths. They are what is left of our compass to humanity.

Humans must live with the earth, for the earth and know the earth as an extension of our humanity. But we live against it.

From https://www.mediaforjustice.net/the-future-is-not-for-softies/ June 10, 2017 by Gillian Schutte

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Life is incredibly precious, it cannot just be replaced.

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Lily Shaw representing XR Youth, Speaking at the Alternative Mining Indaba held in Cape Town South Africa.

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Alternative Mining Indaba
'Environmentally and economically sustainable mineral economies in and era of climate change catastrophe'

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Cat shares love with captive Dolphin. Cat understands dolphin is trapped.

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We do this because we love you... Not to promulgate fear but because at the edge of extinction only love remains. https://youtu.be/CAumigP81x4

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This is NOT sustainable!!!

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#NB "Palmer said, according to The Guardian, “People in all countries need to put pressure on their governments to draw up ambitious global targets by 2020 to protect the insects, birds, plants and mammals that are vital for global food production, clean water and carbon sequestration.”
Our #SouthAfrican XR groups really need to focus on 5G #Now, #WeAreRunningOutOfTime... #SilenceIsNotAnOption #4PM #TODAY IS THE #DEADLINE TO VOICE YOUR OBJECTION - Please object and share with all your contacts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1055182804676747/permalink/1274115309450161/

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We were extremely blessed and honored to receive help and support from the SDCEA (South Durban Community Environmental Alliance) as well as the presence and the powerful voice of The SDCEA Founder, Des D'sa, who was tuning everyone to #StandTogether to Stop 5G South Africa #Respect!!! ✊💓🔥⏳

Des is one of the most serious and hardworking activists we have on our planet and has been since he was 15 years old. When he heard about our dilemma with last minute paperwork issues (which included getting the finances together to pay for Public Liablity Insurance with not less than a R1 000 000 cover), he immediately called us to let us know that the SDCEA would take care of the the matter. His actions, along with the actions of other amazing stalwarts of the Durban Community, enabled us to be able to go ahead with the event so smoothly. Huge gratitude, love and respect #SDCEA #AlutaContinua!
https://sdcea.co.za/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.sdcea.co.za

"Desmond D’Sa, co-ordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and internationally recognised environmental justice campaigner, has been honoured by the Durban University of Technology (DUT) with a doctorate in Human Science for his unending dedication to the battle against environmental rights abuses in South Africa.

SDCEA is a long-time partner and client of the Centre for Environmental Rights. Des is a 2014 recipient of the U.S. based Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism in Africa.

Des has worked for many years to reduce pollution and quality of life in the heavily industrialised South Durban basin in KwaZulu-Natal. Des says, “When I started off with issues of community consciousness, I was constantly told by industry bosses and others that they don’t need people like me in this world, but I pursued my convictions, often going against advice even from family and friends.”

CER Executive Director Melissa Fourie says: “Des has been a stalwart in the South African struggle for environmental justice. His recognition in South Africa and abroad demonstrates that individuals are not powerless against the state or against industry, and acknowledge the significant contributions activists make to uphold and defend the Constitutional right to an environment that is not harmful to health or well-being.”

Accepting his doctorate, Des urged students to fight for their rights and the welfare of their communities. “People said I would be taking on giants, I was not going to win and I would be marginalised. This did not stop me from fighting for justice, truth and people.” (https://cer.org.za/…/newsflash-honorary-doctorate-for-envir…)

"D’Sa acheivements include rallying south Durban’s diverse and disenfranchised communities and successfully shut down a toxic waste dump that was exposing nearby residents to dangerous chemicals and robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to a safe and clean environment." (https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/desmond-dsa)

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Reposting this from co founder Stu Basden
"And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life."

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A translation of the October Declaration of Rebellion into isiXhosa:
Kwaye ke indlu yethu isemlilweni....Ubuntu buzifumana bukwingxakeka engathethekiyo nengxamisekileyo kwiplanethi.
Inye,ngaphandle kokuyilungisa ngokukhawuleziyo, ukuya phambili siqhubela ekutshatyalalisweni kwentoyonke esiyithandayo: Oku le Iplanethi, abantu bayo kunye nendalo, Ikamva labo kunyenakwizizukulwana ezizayo.Inzululwazi icacile: siwusungile umnyhadala wesithathu wokuphela komhlaba.

Ukuba asenzi njalosenze kwaye uhlengahlengiso ngokukhawuleza nangokuqina, sijongane nokuqhekeka kwempucukoyethu. Ngaphandle koxinzelelo lotshintsho lwenguquko, siya kusilela ukunciphisa intlekele eseleabanye bezifumene bekuyo, kwaye baphephe ukuwa kwezentlalo koluntu.Izigidi zabantu ziyafa. Izilwanyana zasendle ziyaqothulwa kwihlabathi liphela.

Amalwandle ethuanetyhefu, eyenziwe yi-acidic kunye nokonyuka. Izikhukula kunye nembalela ziya ngokuqatselakakhulu kulwandiso lomhlaba olungafikeleliyo kunye nokunyanzelwa kokufuduswa kwabantuabaninzi.

Ezo zisele zicinezelwe kwihlabathi liphela zichaphazeleka ngendlela yokunganikezeli iziphumozemozulu kunye nengxaki yendalo.Abahluphekileyo bahlupheka ngakumbi kwaye bayasetyenziswa zizandla zabo banamandla, nabobaqokelela ngakumbi ubutyebi nokulawula ubunini, ukwenza imali kunye nokutshabalaliswakwendalo. IInkokheli zethu ziyasilela ekukhuseleni abantu, bagcina abona bantu abasesichengenikwisangqa esingapheliyo sokuxhaphazwa.

Umoya wethu unetyhefu kangangokuba oorhulumente behlabathi basaphula imithetho yabo:batyisa ukukhula kwamaphaphu abangekazalwa kunye nengqondo, okudala imiba yezempiloyengqondo kulutsha lwethu, nokufa kwezigidi zabantu abamsulwa minyaka le.

Ukwahlukana kwemozulu yethu, ukuwohloka kwenkqubo yethu yendalo, nokwahlukana kweentlalozoluntu sele iqalile. Nyaka ngamnye odlulayo kubakho iminyhadala engaphezulu yesimo sezulu-imililo yasendle, izaqhwithi ezikhulukazi ezingalindelekanga, imbalela engathethelekiyo kunyeNokwanda kwendlala, njengokuba abathengisi kokutya nezixhobo ziyaphazamiseka kwayenemithombo yamanzi acocekileyo ayoma. Ngokounyuka kwamanani okufa kuya ngokuba sisiqhelonjengeemfazwe kunye noqhankqalazo ngaphezulu kwezixobo kuqhubeka kusanda.

Ezingxaki zidibene nobomi bonke kangangeenkulungwane azisenako ungahoywa, ukukhatywakwazo, nokungaphendulwa nangubani na osezingqondweni ezifanelekileyo, nonesazela esilungileyo,nonenkxalabo yoziphatha, okanye ukholo lokomoya.

Ngokuhambelana nezinqobo ezisemgangathweni, amandla enyaniso, kunye nobunzima bobungqinabobuchwephesha, siyawubhengeza ukuba luxanduva lwethu ukwenza oku egameni lokhuselekokunye nentlalo-ntle yosapho lwethu lwehlabathi, abantwana, uluntu lwethu kunye nazo zonke izintoeziphilayo.

Thina, ngokulungelelanisa izazela zethu kunye nokuqiqa kwethu, sivakalisa ukuba sinemvukelongokuchasene nooRhulumete kwihlabathi liphela, ngokuchasene neenkqubo zengcinezelo ezilawulaabantu kwane nzuzo yeplanethi ngelixa ubambe ubunini beempahla, kunye namaziko olwaphulomthetho enza ukuba kukhuselwe imeko enetyhefu.

Ukungenzi msebenzi kunye nokuba nzima ngabom okuboniswe ngooRhulumente bethukuyitshabalalisile intsingiselo yedemokhrasi kwaye ilahle umdla oqhelekileyo wokuthanda inzuzoyexesha elincinci, inzuzo yabucala kunye nokuchithwa kwendalo.

Xa oorhulumente kunye nomthetho besilela ukunikezela nasiphi na isiqinisekiso sokhuselekoolufanelekileyo, ngokunjalo njengokhuseleko kwimpilo yabantu kunye nekamva leplanethi, ibalilungelo labemi bomhlaba mabafune ukulungisa ngokutsha ukubuyisela idemokhrasi esebenzayokunye nokukhuseleka, isisombululo esifunekayo ukunciphisa ingxaki, thintela intlekele yomhlabajikelele nokukhusela Ikamva yobomi. Iya kuba lilungelo lethu kuphela, iba luxanduva lwethuolungcwele ukuvukela.

Ngokwenjenje siyabhengeza ukuba imvumelwano yentlalontle ingabaluleki kwaye ingasebenzi,njengoRhulumente obanike into engasebenziyo ngokusilela kwabo ukwenza ngokufanelekileyo.Kwintshukumo yeentshukumo sime ngokuqinileyo ecaleni kwabo banembali ngaphambili abavukelaubulungisa behlabathi kwaye nokuqhubekeka nokwenza njalo, kwaye babize bonke abanenqakukunye noxolo Umntu uza kujoyina imvukelo ebanzi yePlanethi yabantu abanganabudlovbongelakunye nezenzo ezingathobeli inkululeko.

Sifuna:1) Oorhulumente kufuneka bathethe inyani ngokwazisa ngemozulu yomhlaba nangendalo iimekozongxamiseko, ukusebenza namanye amaziko, kubandakanya kodwa kungaphelelanga kwimithomboyeendaba kunye amacandelo emfundo, ukunxibelelana ngokungxamisekileyo ngotshintsho, kunyenokufundisa uluntu ngotshintsho olufunekayo, lusebenze ngokufanelekileyo ngokuhambelananenyaniso.

2) Oorhulumente kufuneka benze umthetho-nkqubo wokubopha ngokusemthethweni kunyenemigaqo yokunqanda ukulahleka kwezinto eziphilayo, ukunciphisa kokhutshwa kwegesigreenhouse kwi-zero zero, yenza i-ecocide ibe lulwaphulo-mthetho ngokuchasene noluntu, kwayeukuqalisa iinkqubo ezingxamisekileyo zokulungiswa kweplanethi.

3) Oorhulumente kufuneka benze kwaye bakhokelwe zizigqibo ezibophelelayo ezisemthethwenizeCitizens zabemi kwimozulu, kubume bendalo kunye nobulungisa behlabathi, kwezi mfunozingasentla, kubandakanya amaxesha esisombululo kunye nezicwangciso zekhonkrithi zentshukumo,kodwa kungaphelelanga kwezi zicelo zingaphezulu .

.Le ngxaki yeplanethi idlula kwimida yesizwe, kwaye iimpendulo kuyo kufuneka sithathe inxaxhebayokungalingani kwe akhawunti ngefuthe lezoqoqosho, okusingqongileyo kunye nendalo kunyenokuphazamiseka kwi IGlobal North kunye neGlobal South.

Siyala ukuqhawula iplanethi esweleyo ngokubonakalisa kunye nezizukulwana ezizayo ngokusilelanangokwenza ngoku.Sisebenza ngoxolo, nothando olunobuzaza entliziyweni yethu eluntwini, zonke izinto eziphilayo,kunye nale umhlaba ezintliziyweni zethu.

Sisebenza egameni lobomi.Kwaye ke umlilo uvutha. Utshisela ubulungisa kunye nenjongo. Ukukhanya kwenyani kunyenomsindo, uyakhanya kwabo babuleweyo nabalahlekileyo; nakwizidalwa eziphilayo nako konkeokuphilayo okungasokuze kwenzeke kwakhona yiba; nakwabo basawakhusela umhlaba wookhokhobethu.

Itotshi yokuxhathisa idlulile isuka kwesinye isizukulwana ukuya kwesinye kwaye iphinda ibuyelwengaphakathi yonke ikona yomhlaba wethu othandekayo ngabancinci, kuba iintliziyo zabo zichithwengumnqweno kwibali elitsha."

Alikho elinye ilizwe elinokwenzeka kuphela, kodwa usendleleni. Ngemini ethe cwaka,siyamvaukuphefumla. ”Qho xa sibeka ukungaboni ngasonye kwethu kwaye sivukele ubomi kunye,uyavuya kwaye isondela kancinci.Ngumzuzu wenyaniso. Ixesha lotshintsho ngoku. Ibali elidala liyaphela. Kwaye elintsha sele iqalile.Kuxhomekeke kuthi sonke ukuba siyixelele.Kwaye ke umlilo uvutha.
https://cloud.xrebellion.org.za/s/2y4pQNwmBJwPGtM

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#URGENT!!! Please add your voice and make your objection, deadline is this FRIDAY 31ST JANUARY!! Share with #ALL your contacts #Stop5GSouthAfrica!!!

❗URGENT- 5G ROLLOUT SA COMMENT DEADLINE 31 JAN 2020
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❗▪5G Rollout South Africa
*IMT 3500 spectrum*
IMT -International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Spectrum

DEADLINE 4pm 31 JAN 2020
Submit your comment here- your comment will be automatically sent as an individual email - this is not a petition
**Please submit your comment &Share!**
https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/5g-south-africa/

▪ICASA
'Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

Home Legislation/ regulations Information Memorandum for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum assignment

❗INFORMATION MEMORANDUM FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (IMT) SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT

Information Memorandum For International Mobile Telecommunications Spectrum Assignment
Notice on the licensing process for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Spectrum, inviting comments in respect of the provision of mobile broadband wireless open access services for urban and rural areas using the complimentary bands, IMT700, IMT800, IMT2300, IMT2600, and IMT 3500'

https://www.icasa.org.za/…/information-memorandum-for-imt-s…

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157407183287732&id=737617731

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'We declare our support for Extinction Rebellion': an open letter from Australia's academics
Leading academics from around the country say it is their moral duty to rebel to ‘defend life itself’

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Mass extinction is only an event in terms of Geological time, to us its our whole world. But an extinction like this massive hasn't happened for about that long a time. We call it an extinction event as if we are going to survive it. But probably nothing larger than a chicken will pull through.

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The lag effect of State Capture is taking effect and the lag effect of green house gases are adding fuel to the fires burning. How can we change the trajectory?

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#Please #UseYourVoices We need #Everyone!!! To help #Stop5GSouthAfrica

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Melbourne Climate Wildfire outrage.

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Can't find Fish elsewhere so it moved to the place the fish are going to.

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Mckinsey kinda companies, we must outlaw these consultancy firms.

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VANESSA NAKATE
The Real Uganda Fridays for Future
BRAVE AND FEARLESS EARTH WARRIOR!

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'The Green New Deal, the climate-change-fighting policy framework proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) nearly a year ago, laid down bold goals for transforming agriculture: It called for a “10-year national mobilization” to “eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector” while “supporting family farming.”

The plan was as light on details as it was ambitious in scope. The strategy was to throw down a gauntlet and inspire researchers to come up with policy ideas that grassroots groups could rally behind, which Ocasio-Cortez, Markey, and their allies would then transform into bills and push through Congress.'

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USA OLIGARCHY WE HATE YOU

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Fracking Hell!
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/01/21/2010s-decade-fracking-shale-climate-crisis

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A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self
Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions
around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by
the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture.

• Anthropocentrism
• Racism
• Sexism
• Eurocentrism
• Heteronormativity
• Classism

Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for
dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of:

• Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects
• Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and,
• Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."

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“But what if ignorance is strategically manufactured? What if the tools of knowledge production are perverted to enable ignorance? In 1995, Robert Proctor and Iain Boal coined the term “agnotology” to describe the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance. In an edited volume called Agnotology, Proctor and Londa Schiebinger collect essays detailing how agnotology is achieved. Whether we’re talking about the erasure of history or the undoing of scientific knowledge, agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful”

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The icon of British nature David Attenborough...

https://youtu.be/OcJozAOh5XE

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😂🤣

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Shall we be able to Rise Over and Above these Politics and change our trajectory of Certain Extinction? The time has come.

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'The Makarora area of Mt Aspiring National Park was aerially 1080-poisoned on 15 October, 2019 – the Wilkin, Fish, Blue, Cameron, Makarora and Young Valleys.

Yesterday I was told that the old six-bunk forestry hut at Top Forks, Wilkin River Valley, is being restored, and the workers restoring it are living there while it is restored. They say there is absolutely nothing left alive up there. It is as silent as the grave…. no birds, no insects, NOTHING !

Extraordinarily, even though the area was poisoned only two weeks ago there are NO warning signs on any of the DoC online track information on the Young Valley Track, Cameron Valley Track, Blue-Young Valley Track, etc! There will be dead carcasses and baits in the streams and rivers. Innocent tourist trampers from overseas will drink from the streams.'

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THE BEGINNING OF THE CLAMP DOWN? More on the despicable UK police counter-terror document that attempts to paint legitimate protest groups and actions (especially environmental and anti-war) as dangerous and extremist. In the wake of the Global Witness Annual Report released 30 July 2019 and titled: ‘Enemies of the State? How governments and businesses silence land and environmental defenders’ this isn't exactly surprising however. 2019 was a year when ordinary citizens across the planet rose up to say: Enough! As a result, the neoliberal elites are getting worried and their perverse instinct is – not to tackle the burning issues facing us and seek just and genuine solutions – but to clamp down in order to try and protect their own narrow self-interest.
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“This is nothing short of pointing a finger at anyone that thinks differently to ‘business as usual’ – which is taking humanity to its grave – and lumping them all together. The chilling effect is to leave people feeling under scrutiny, watched and pressurised, feeling othered, ashamed or afraid to be open about the things they care about such as the environment and the world around us.” – Extinction Rebellion.
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'What if funding was no longer an issue and billions would be liberated to support the local and bioregional capacity building for ecosystems restoration and the regeneration of communities, cities, and globally cooperative bioregional economies?

What if we were suddenly enabled to convene conversations, planning and implementation locally and bioregionally to engage in the scale-linking redesign of the human presence and impact on Earth?

What if we were challenged to scale-out a glocal (global-local) capacity building and education programme that enables people to learn the needed skills and knowledge while already being an active part of the regeneration rising?'

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“TAKE BACK THE EARTH”: The Empowering Speech of Native American Rights Defender
John Trudell who was a highly respected Native American activist and poet. A member of the American Indian Movement during the late Sixties and Seventies, Trudell became one of the most recognized and influential advocates of Native American rights. His charisma and outspokenness incited the FBI to amass a 17,000-page dossier on him with a memo saying: “He’s extremely eloquent therefore extremely dangerous.” Here we’re pleased to present the following excerpts from Trudell’s empowering 1980 Thanksgiving Day address, in which he called on everyone to “Take Back The Earth”.

Nearly forty years later, and in the face of global climate change, it is more timely than ever to reflect upon the words of this great Earth Defender.

“We’re faced with a very serious situation in this generation. There are insane people who wish to rule the world. They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression, and we are all the victims of that violence and repression. We as the indigenous people of the Western hemisphere have been resisting this oppression for 500 years. We know that the black people have been resisting it for at least that long. And we know that the white people have had to endure it thousands of years.

We have to re-establish our identity. We have to understand who we are and where we fit in the natural order of the world, because our oppressor deals in illusions. They tell us that it is power, but it is not power. They may have all the guns, the racist laws and judges, and they may control all the money, but that is not power.

These are only imitations of power, and they are only power because in our minds we allow it to be power.

Racism and violence, racism and guns, economics – the brutality of the American Corporate State way of life is nothing more than violence and oppression and it doesn’t have anything to do with power. It is brutality. It’s a lack of a sane balance. The people who have created this system, and who perpetuate this system, they are out of balance. They have made us out of balance. They have come into our minds and they have come into our hearts and they’ve programmed us. Because we live in this society, it has put us out of balance. And because we are out of balance we no longer have the power to deal with them. They have conquered us as a natural power.

We are Power. We are a part of the Natural World.

All of the things in the natural world are a natural part of the creation and feed off the energy of our sacred mother, Earth. We are power. But they have separated us from our spiritual connection to the Earth, so people feel powerless.

We are power, we are a natural part of the creation, we were put here on the sacred mother Earth to serve a purpose. And somewhere in the history of people, we’re forgetting what the purpose is. The purpose is to honour the Earth, the purpose is to protect the Earth, the purpose is to live in balance with the Earth, the Earth is our mother.

We will never free ourselves until we address the issue of
how we live in balance with the Earth.

Any child who turns on their mother is living in a terrible, terrible confusion: the Earth is our mother, we must take care of the Earth.

Oil spill in Santander, Colombian Amazon, March 2018. Footage via MongabayLatam
They pollute – this oppressor, this machine that has gone mad and run amok, it is beserk. They keep telling us, “progress.” They keep telling us “face reality.” Well, let’s deal with reality. Reality is the Earth can no longer take this attack. We can no longer allow this thing to continue when it’s polluting the air, it’s polluting the water, polluting our food. They pollute the air, they pollute the water, they pollute our food, they pollute our minds. They put us out of balance.

We are a natural part of the Earth. As a natural part of the Earth, we have the energy and the power that IS the Earth. The Earth will take care of us if we will remember the Earth – in more than just our words; if we remember the Earth in our way of life. We are all here to play a role – and all of the animals, and all of the life on the Earth is playing its proper role except for the human people. Somehow, we are betraying our purpose here and that is why we live in the confusion that we live in.

We are a natural part of the Earth. We are an extension of that natural energy. The natural energy which is Spirit, and which is power.

Power. A blizzard is power. An earthquake is power. A tornado is power. These are all things of power that no oppressor, no machine age, can put these things of power in a prison. No machine age can make these things of power submit to the machine age. That is natural power.

And just as it takes millions and billions of elements to make a blizzard to happen, or to make the earthquake, to make the Earth to move, then it’s going to take millions and billions of us. We are power. We have that power. We have the potential for that power.

Our power will come back to us, our sense of balance will come back to us, when we go back to the natural way of protecting and honouring the Earth. If we have forgotten how to do it, or we think that it looks overwhelming, or think that we can never accomplish it, all we have to do, each one of us, an individual, is to go and find one spot on the Earth that we can relate to. Feel that energy, feel that power. That’s where our safety will come.

The Earth will take care of us. We have to understand that the American Corporate State will not take care of us. They do not care about us. Maximise their profit, that is where their whole life’s balance is placed upon. They will turn us against each other to maximise the profit, because they have done it in the past.

We will not destroy the world. We are arrogant and we are stupid and we are foolish if we believe that we will destroy the world. Man has the ability to destroy all of the people’s ability to live on the Earth, but we do not have the power to destroy the earth. The earth will heal itself. The earth will purify itself of us.

If it takes a billion years to get rid of the radiation the Earth will do it, because the Earth has that kind of time. We do not.

Our obligations and our loyalty have to be to the Earth. They have to be to our sense of community and to our people and our relations. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs, to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars. That has been the consistent history of Western civilization and the American Corporate State Government – that’s reality.

What is racism? Racism is an act of war. What is sexism? Sexism is an act of war. It’s a war against our human dignity and our rights to self respect. This is the war that they wage there. War! They are war-like. And we have to understand that the American Corporate State got to where it’s at through the act of war.

For 500 years my people have resisted.
For 500 years we will resist again if it becomes necessary.

We want to be able to relate and communicate with all of the people who are living on this land, but we want to be able to relate and communicate from a position of truth. You all gotta face the truth. We have had to face it through 500 years of genocide, we have had to face the truth, we have had to live the truth. We have had to die the truth. Before we’re gonna ever see our evolutionary liberation, the people that call themselves Americans are gonna have to face the truth also.

They tell us to “be realistic,” that “progress” means that all these things have to happen. They tell us that we can’t go back to the old way. They tell us “be realistic.” But there is no old way, no new way, there is a way of life. We must live in balance with the Earth. We MUST do it. We have no choice. If we allow ourselves to be apathetic, or we allow ourselves to be lied to, or tolerate their lies about what they’re doing to the earth, then we are betraying our intention. We are betraying our purpose here. We cannot protect that 7th generation if we do not protect the Earth.

We cannot protect ourselves if we do not protect the Earth. The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The Earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life, we need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do.

They want to break our spirit. They will do everything and anything to break our spirit, our will to live. We must learn to resist, we must learn to see, we must learn to look.

If we start to think we will learn to see, to see what reality really is, and we will outnumber them through the thinking process. We will take our minds away from them. Because through their manipulation of our minds, they control our spirit, and they know this is true.”



– John Trudell (1946-2015). To listen to the full speech:
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'We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a
high standard of living.'

Selected writings of Huey P Newton

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"Ultimas Palabras"

A new American revolution has begun,
Not against the forces of a colonial kingdom
But a rebellion against an oppressor that has risen among us,
It is not a foreign invasion we have to fear,
Rather the threat of a force within our nation
That has usurped what was once a dream of having the greatest democracy ever known to man,
We now live in a world where the population has grown exponentially,
And the planet is running out of resources to sustain us all,
We in the inner-city and those struggling in the suburban ghettos may not realize it yet,
But make no mistake,
The people who control the technology and run every enterprise that makes up our world,
Have seen this coming for a long time,
The ideas of renewable energy,
Global warming,
The idea of collectively working,
Were purposefully bought out, derailed, demonized, or corrupted,
In favor of an economic structure designed by a monetary caste system,
In a desperate attempt to convince us that we need to maintain that extravagant existence,
They've pretended we might share in their dream,
That we can justify any inhumanity in its name,
Out of this blind ignorance was born the curse of slavery,
Many of the founders of this nation were themselves Masons,
That is not a Left wing or Right wing conspiracy theory,
It is a widely known and accepted fact,
So then explain to me how a nation founded by men,
Who not only understood the long and complicated history of Europe,
But also that of Africa,
Could permeate such a lie in convincing the American public,
That one race of men was superior and one inferior,
When in fact we know that all the early men,
The men who created civilization and every aspect of what we see today,
The foundation of all human life,
Were from Africa,
The greatest cowardice of course came not with slavery itself,
Unfortunately,
But with the excuses for slavery,
For if America had been as brave as the Roman Empire and all other empires that have come after her,
And claimed "No, we were just stronger and that's why we took you",
Then when slavery was over racism would've probably followed in suit,
But instead it was the social lie,
The religious lie that was told,
That stayed in the mind of people,
That seperated one human being from another,
In order to distract us from the issues of class and freedom,
They created issues around religion and race to dominate the world for centuries to come,
Some claim that they respect that they respect the culture of life in this country,
They cry out for indignity of children that are slaughtered before they are born,
But God has not penetrated their souls,
For they have no empathy,
Nothing in their cold hearts for the 100s of 1,000s of lives we have taken in our wars overseas,
For that which they call "collateral damage",
Which the are the burnt and damaged children of the world,
They have no prayers for them,
Only snide commentary on the internet and laughter in their hearts,
And yet you claim to be one with God,
Huh,
We talk about immigration in this country,
Might doesn't make right ladies and gentleman,
It just makes right now,
What we are saying to the rest of the world,
Is one day when America grows weak,
One day when her legions falter,
On the day when her economy crumbles,
China, Russia, Europe, whatever power has arisen,
All you have to do is come here and conquer us in a few military excursions,
And then you too can set up shop here,
And in 100 years you can tell every red-blooded American,
"No, you are an illegal human being,
I am the true citizen,
I have all the rights,
You have no rights",
Maybe you forgot how you got this country,
Maybe you take for granted the blood, the sweat, the tears,
That the people who live in practical serfdom shed everyday,
For we may not run America, but we make America run,
We talk about the Law,
Yet,
How many indignities have been legal in the past?
How many treaties with Native Americans have we broken?
How many international laws have we violated?
And,
Speaking of laws,
How can a corporation be regulated by a government that is funded and controlled by corporations?
How can there be accountability,
For people who see a profit margin above the lives of Americans?
Above the lives of human beings in other countries?
We have taken the soul out ourselves and placed them inside machines,
My words of course,
Will be marginalized, demonized,
In typical fashion,
Anytime you dare to question the power structure they say you hate America,
No, I love this country,
I see its beauty everyday in its people,
And I love it a lot more than those who have abandoned the American worker,
That have chose to exploit and try to take away benefit she has,
Those that attempt to make excuses for every atrocity committed,
In the name of supposed freedom,
Those who demand accountability from everyone,
But offer none themselves,
Who favor contracts over lives,
Who favor invasion and control over organic democracy overseas,
The greatest flaw that any intelligent person has is to think they're smarter than everyone else,
And so the government has planted its spies amongst us,
We have planted our spies among them,
They have infiltrated every branch of the American government,
They have retrieved names, data, hard numbers,
The paper trail that will expose those that truly control this country,
Those that control the political parties,
Those that control the oil industry,
The energy,
Those that stand behind the companies faceless,
Whose names have never been revealed,
Until tod.. [GUNSHOT]

https://youtu.be/6BGZfBCQSD8

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"Internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security reveal that non-violent demonstrators targeting the oil industry were classified as "extremists," with some organization members listed alongside known white supremacists, as The Guardian reported.

Five members of Climate Direct Action — Michael Foster, Ken Ward, Emily Johnston, Annette Klapstein, and Leonard Higgins — have been dubbed the Valve Turners after a coordinated effort on Oct. 11, 2016 to cut through fencing and turn off valves on a pipeline in four states. The pipeline carried crude oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries."

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Cape Town is Experiencing heavy winds

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Just when climate change hits we have an almost total breakdown of Trains. What's the plan?

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We can begin to respect natural life again, we can Consider the rights of Animals, Plants, Fungi, soil biota, just as much as any Human Life. We are all connected, we are all relations. Domination and Violence must be ended on our planet for us to all have a chance at a future.

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"Concerned about inequality and the class war? Look at the way the wealthy have already started building walls to protect themselves while the lower classes drown or burn. Concerned about housing as a human right? Millions of houses are in areas that will soon be underwater or in flames will bring the affordable housing crisis to levels we have never seen before. Concerned about migrant justice, racial justice and the violent impacts of the nation-state more broadly? Look no further than Fortress Europe and the US-Mexico border to see that white, wealthy nations are already justifying locking out the Global South to face the effects of the climate apocalypse the North caused. No movement or strategy can afford to ignore the struggle for climate justice"

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The slogan translates to

"The people are mightier than a lord."

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Let's take Q from the French here and start mass action strikes.

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UCT Inclusivity report
“Representative of 25% of respondents
I feel bullied and discriminated against at UCT and this really gets in the way of my contribution and how I feel at work. Departmental and faculty leaders constrain my academic work and don’t take people of my demographic group seriously (Academics). I don’t think my direct manager takes people of my demographic group seriously (PASS). There is a lot of conscious and unconscious bias going around and many people are completely blind to it. I am frustrated and when I raise issues of real importance I am seen as angry and disruptive, which leads to people working against me. Things at UCT will need to change before I will be able to feel that this is a home for me.”

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'There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates. And there is nothing that tells us more clearly that freedom for one is captivity for another.

Even while it remains a civil matter, the offence of trespass informs us that we are strangers in our own nation, unwelcome on the great majority of its acres. This is why Scotland introduced its comprehensive right to roam, enabling people to venture on to almost all uncultivated land except gardens, sports grounds and the land immediately surrounding houses, schools and other buildings. Despite dire predictions, it works well, with scarcely any conflict. The Scottish government, and the campaigners who pressed for this reform, see access as an essential component of citizenship. When you are treated as a trespasser across most of your nation, the message you receive is that you don’t belong.'

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The crews, called Indigenous Mitigation Crews, are charged with protecting sacred sites, caring for kin on reserves, and fighting remote fires.

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Hardly any levies or tariffs, labor is dirt cheap, resources are being given away to multinationals and off course it's a Great place to 'invest' in.

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The Red Brigade represents the blood that ties us all together.

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The quiet Australia 👏

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CELL TOWER TECHNICIAN SOUNDS THE ALARM ON THE DANGERS OF 5G
Cell Tower Technician Sounds the Alarm on the Dangers of 5G
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Almost nothing demonstrates the hubris of government and corporations more clearly than the 5G rollout, or what President Trump calls “a race we must win.”
The dangers of 5G are vast and overwhelming as our privacy, health, and liberties are all at risk as a result of 5th generation technology. As our government touts its economic benefits, doctors, scientists, and even meteorologists around the world are sounding the alarm about the implications of the technology.

But recently, a cell tower installer, or “tower climber” as he calls himself, began speaking out about the danger that 5G poses to our health.
His video has gone relatively viral since it was posted in mid-June and he has since followed up with a few others talking about 5G. In his own words, he explains how dangerous installing 4G technology has been.

“If you take radiofrequency close, it superheats the water molecules in your brain, eyes, and testicles … You could render yourself sterile or have a splitting headache for days, or, I’ve cooked the top of my skull and left me useless for the rest of the day.”

That’s only with 4G. However, because of 4G’s long wavelength the only real harm that can be done occurs at very short-range, just a few feet from the cell tower’s dispersion point.

Remember that 4G technology works within a range of about 1.5 – 2.8 megahertz. 5G on the other hand, broadcasts in gigahertz frequencies – which is about 1500 times more intense than what 4G relies on.

READ: PROMINENT BIOCHEMISTRY PROFESSOR WARNS – 5G IS THE ‘STUPIDEST IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
Also, 5G transmitters will not be constructed high upon a mountain out of harm’s way like 4G towers are. They are going to be placed in offices, on street corners, inside your car, and in your home. The long-term effects of 4G are not yet known, but 5G is going to bring us to a whole new level of imminent danger to our health.

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As the South African region faces famine in many areas we must look for ways to undo the damage that has led us to this point. Really worth reading this link. Many thanks to @[411728495853545:69:Food Tank - South Africa] and Alison Moultrie

"But for the new capitalist order to succeed, this reverence for the earth had to be replaced by obedience to the Church and State, and by the middle ages, women’s magic was designated as witchcraft and punishable by burning. Federici argues this persecution of women’s ‘old ways’ as witchcraft was necessary to the desacralization of nature, paving the way for its transformation into a lifeless “resource” for economic exploitation."

#RebelForLife #FoodSecurity #Nature #Ecofeminism

https://gathervictoria.com/2017/11/14/rewilding-eco-feminism-the-reclaimation-of-magic/

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Is it just Australia? No its ALL the planet's Forests.... All of them. These fires are associated with the 2 degree temperature increase.

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“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.”

Professor Jason Re

Sydney Australia Last week's Student Protests.

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The most ancient domesticated plant in the world.

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This time is very precious. Oceans are where many believe life on this beautiful planet originated.

"A new review of the research, published yesterday in Science, concludes that “multiple lines of evidence from four independent groups thus now suggest a stronger observed [ocean heat content] warming.”

Taken together, the research suggests that the oceans are heating up about 40 percent faster than previously estimated by the IPCC. "

#Peace

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Hmmm

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"Climate change, the bastard child of capitalism."

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Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is best known for using direct action to protect whales from Japanese whaling vessels, but he’s also a world-renowned advocate for the oceans and all of its other inhabitants. During an interview with TheirTurn in New York City, Watson explained why protecting the oceans is not only vital to sea animals but also to the very survival of the human species. “If the oceans die, we die.”

Watson explains that oceans, which he describes as the “blue lungs” of the Earth, produce 70% of the oxygen that we breathe and that the source of the oxygen are phytoplankton. Since 1950, the amount of phytoplankton in the oceans has dropped by 40% due to whaling, commercial fishing, animal agriculture and other forms of pollution.'

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Wonder for how long?

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'During these first days of the third decade of the twenty-first century, as we watch humans, animals, trees, insects, fungi, ecosystems, forests, rivers (and on and on) being killed, we find ourselves without a word to name what is happening. True, in recent years, environmentalists have coined the term ecocide, the killing of ecosystems — but this is something more. This is the killing of everything. Omnicide.

Some will object, no doubt, that this does not count as a “cide” — a murder or killing — but is rather a natural phenomenon, albeit an unspeakably regrettable one. Where is the murderous intent? Difficult to locate, admittedly, but a new crime also requires a new understanding of culpability. Indeed, one of the most serious problems with the laws against genocide is that they were written in a way that requires that the specific intent to destroy a people can be shown to have existed. Even where it did exist, such intent most often remains hidden in people’s dark hearts.

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This time, though, we need to go much further. We need to understand that the responsibility for omnicide is various and layered. The role that those responsible play this time is almost always less direct, but its effect no less devastating. We are unlikely to identify anyone actively scheming the death of the five-hundred million wild animals whom we believe to have died in the first month of this summer’s Australian bushfires.

We can, however, identify the political representatives who refused to meet with fire chiefs who had been seeking to warn of, and act to mitigate, the impending disaster. The same political representatives who approved and continue to approve new coalmines in the face of scientific consensus on the effect that continuing to burn fossil fuels will have on climate in general, and drought and temperatures in particular. The same political representatives who approve water being diverted to support resource extraction, when living beings are dying for want of water and drying to the point of conflagration.

We can identify the media owners who sponsor mass denial of the scientific evidence of the effects of a fossil fuel addicted economy on the climate. The same media owners who deploy the tools of mass manipulation to stoke fear, seed confusion, breed ignorance and create and then fuel hostile divisions within communities.

We can identify the financial institutions that continue to invest in, and thereby prop up toxic industries, and who support the abovementioned media owners so as to protect themselves from accumulating stranded assets. We can identify the investors who use their financial and social capital to support politicians who will protect their financial interests. We can identify a corporate culture and a legal system, populated by lawyers, management consultants and financial analysts, that incentivise or even require companies to maximise short term shareholder profit and externalise costs to the future and the planet.

And then we can identify parties closer to home. Business owners and investors whose profits depend on systems of extraction and resource exploitation. Consumers addicted to lifestyles based on resource extraction and the exploitation of the natural world. Citizens who prioritise narrow short-term interests over the sustainability of the planet. Citizens who lack the courage or fortitude to take ourselves through the social and economic transformations required to give our children and the more-than-human-world a future. Citizens who do not bother to take the time or make the effort to develop well-informed opinions, but would rather run to the comfort of the truisms of their tribe.

We can also identify the humans and human cultures that have told ourselves that we are superior to, and thus have the right to dominate and exploit, other animals and the natural world. That we are the ones who get to flourish, and that everything else that is here, is here for our use. That other beings are not life but resource.

None on this long list developed a specific intent to kill everything. But all of us have created and are creating the conditions in which omnicide is inevitable.

When I was growing up, my parents used to play a Bob Dylan song called “Who Killed Davey Moore?” about a boxer who died in the ring when he was just 30 years old. Each verse begins with some party — the coach, the crowd, the manager, the gambling man, the boxing writer, the other fighter — answering the title’s question, “Who killed Davey Moore?” They each respond, “Not I …” and then explain that they were just doing what it is that they do: going to the fight, writing about the fight, throwing the punches and so on. And of course, they each told the truth.

We too are just doing what it is that we do: ensuring that the largest political donors support our political campaigns; maximising profits; ensuring a high share price; living a comfortable life style; avoiding change; lazily buying back in to the conceit that we humans are special. But sometimes, just doing what it is that we do is sufficient to kill, not just Davey Moore, but everything.

Omnicide, the gravest of all crimes. And as with all crimes, those responsible must be held accountable.'

Danielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is the author of The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies and The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach.

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We know that COP 25 was a mockery of the science and we watch to see how world leaders will respond at Davos... The authorities in the UK have branded XR an extremist movement. Meanwhile as hostilities increase impossibly in the Middle East... The climate breakdown continues.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/weather/forecast-us-ice-storm-tornado-saturday/index.html

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In order for us to achieve an ecological revolution we must take mass action. Mass action to be allowed to implement the changes in the world we need to survive. Corporations and governments will never give us the solutions in time. They need to be forced through great creativity and thinking in a different way.

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"The Krishna Consciousness mission is not sectarian. We want to do what the United Nations has failed to do. The human form of body is an opportunity for solving all the problems of life. Through evolution we come to the human life for solving this problem. The real problem is the repetition of birth, death, disease, and old age.

But there is another status of life where there is no birth, death, disease, and old age. The Krishna Consciousness movement is the means for promoting the human being to that status. This is a great science, and it is elaborately explained in the Bhagavad-gita.
So our mission is to give this benediction to all humanity. Let us cooperate together on this basis so that it will be a more effective United Nations, We shall be united on the basis of the prime need of human society, spiritual life."

Letter to People of Bangkok: December 14, 1974

David Attenborough the epitomy of Conservatism has stated we can't be radical enough about the ecological collapse. As someone who documented ecosystems for decades and was a huge part of popularizing nature in the modern western world he is passionate and knowledgeable about the issue. He is warning us in no uncertain terms how bad this all is. People should come together to talk about our future on earth and the ecosystems. When we make the call to action please join us and make your voice heard.

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Eff shared this video, interesting video. Not endorsing Eff. Just passing on an interesting video important for South Africa.

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Climate Catastrophe and Mass Extinction of fresh water aquatic systems are the second wave of colonial genocides.

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Parts of the USA's Louisiana bayou are being lost to rising sea levels and the same is happening to Nova Scotia in Canada.

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Where there are monoculture food types and plantations, fsrming practices msy be intense industrialised farming practices Many of the hives transported in Australia are for pollating almonds - as referred to here - have been lost in wild fires burning now over 2 months. Entire bee populations, colonies with some farmers losing up to 6000 hives, even many indigenous bee types are vulnerable following the fires in 300 major sites across Australia. The eucalypts & gum flowers are key pollen food sources for bees.

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'Before Britain started sending convicts to the continent in the 1700's, Aboriginal Australians used fire to manage brushlands and forests across the continent.

Butler and his wife once used this place to hold camps and workshops on Aboriginal culture. They had a program for troubled indigenous youth. School groups would come to learn about native art, history and food. Fire was a key issue they'd teach about.

"Fire in this place is our friend," he says. "Fire has been used to maintain, to look after this whole continent forever."

Native peoples called them "cool burns," low-intensity fires intended to balance the various plants and trees growing in an area.

"How we maintain that balance is through fire, by not letting any one thing dominate something else," says Butler.

Aboriginal people have generations of knowledge about managing the landscape on this continent, but Butler says they're ignored by public officials who rely on the massive controlled burns firefighters have been using known as backburns. Butler says cool burns target specific areas and even specific plants, while the current methods destroy everything in their paths.

"I think this is a wakeup call not only for Australia but for the rest of the world. You cannot just destroy the land. You cannot destroy what keeps you alive."

Despite losing everything on his property, Butler and his wife plan to rebuild their Aboriginal culture center. He says the trainings they do on traditional practices are more important now than ever.'

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795224932/with-their-land-in-flames-aboriginals-warn-fires-show-deep-problems-in-australia

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“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer”

“Matter is not lacking in magic, matter is magic.”

“People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system.”

“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”

“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity”

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down – sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing. But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
– Terence McKenna

“You don’t want to become so open-minded that the wind can whistle between your ears.”

“If you’re not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do some heavy editing.”

“Culture is the effort to hold back the mystery, and replace it with a mythology.”

“Unexamined cultural values & limitations of language have made us unwitting prisoners of our own assumptions.”

“This is a society, a world, a planet dying because there is not enough consciousness, because there is not enough awareness, enough coordination of intent-to-problem. And yet, we spend vast amounts of money stigmatizing people and substances that are part of this effort to expand consciousness, see things in different ways, unleash creativity. Isn’t it perfectly clear that business as usual is a bullet through the head?”

“Our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building of the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all is what it’s really all about.”

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.”

“Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

“Personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”

“Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control.”

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.”

“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.”

“The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.”

“The future of communication is the future of the evolution of the human soul.”

“Our need to feel part of the world seems to demand that we express ourselves through creative activity.”

“Culture is not your friend, it’s an impediment to understanding what’s going on. That’s why the words cult and culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic, unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.”

“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
– Terence McKenna

“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”

“The internet is light at the end of the tunnel…it is creating a global society”

“If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”
-Terence McKenna

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ScoMo getting his well-deserved and hard earned disrespect from protesters, after trying to ban any talk about climate change, despite the horror that people just suffered in Aus.
https://7news.com.au/news/climate-change/thousands-of-climate-change-protesters-march-through-sydney-c-641947

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"Enemies Of People Are Those Who Keep Them Ignorant"

Thomas Sankara.

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Eish! You job is not secure if you care about the future of children.

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Neoshamans come forward to guide the mass trip?

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Have you got 2020 VISION?
New Era
WARNING: Disturbing Content
One of the worst photos you will see today comes from Australia: the bodies of hundreds of animals have been lined down the road into Batlow, one of the towns that was worst hit by the bushfires that caught that part of Australia this weekend.
#climatechange #ClimateAction #ActOnClimate #climateactionnow #wecandobetter #thepowerisours #BeTheChange #thisisthefuture #thischangeseverything #capitalismvstheclimate #climatecatastrophe #climateconsequences #climatechanged #ClimateChangeIsReal #resist #saveearth #saveourselves #makeearthgreatagain #earthfirst #extremeweather #wildfires #Australia #racingextinction #extinction #massextinction

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What does that mean for the human beings living in proximity to crops that are poisoned?

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'Good bye Blue Sky, Good bye'

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Who said we need all this electricity anyways?

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Go XR Scotland, the most Rebellious of Rebels ❤️😂

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Do Psychedelics give people the ability to see molecular forms? Could sharing the molecular conscious ability aid humanity in coming to balance with the natural world?

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Most definately.... With the help of corporations.... Let's stop them, we a global movement and we must truly end the destruction now. Try save what ever is left of the biosphere.

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What's happening in your neighborhood? How many more obsolete shopping centre's and petrol stations are they planning to build? How many elite high security complexes are being built on sensitive ecosystem edges? How exactly does everyday extinction take place?

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As is they need the money? So disappointing but not surprising that these companies are supporting the extinction of Life on Earth rather than using their power for survival.

"Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been very vocal about their efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. But as the Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo have reported, these same companies are currently teaming up with the fossil fuel industry to help them squeeze as much oil and gas out of the ground as possible"

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After hundreds of years will the settlers finally listen to indigenous people about the care and management of the Harsh Landscape of Australia?

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How much do you care about the ecology of Planet Earth? Are you willing to be arrested for the cause? If not are you willing to donate otherwise? What do you do and what can you offer the Rebellion? Joining our underground team is another option but that's not public knowledge.

‘Go on, p*ss off’: Disgruntled bushfire victims hound Australian PM out of town (VIDEOS)

Australian PM’s attempt to console victims of the massive bushfires has spectacularly flopped, as the high-ranking official failed to answer their questions, getting heckled and chased away by the angry mob.
PM Scott Morrison visited the town of Cobargo on Thursday, apparently looking for a PR opportunity – that actually turned into a disaster for him. The fires devastated the township on Tuesday – at least three people were killed, while scores lost their homes and businesses.
READ MORE: Australian air force, navy preparing for ‘largest ever evacuation' of people from fire-ravaged Victoria (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
The official started his visit to Cobargo walking up to a local woman, casually asking “How are you?” and then forcing her into a handshake – and that was when all the PR stunt flopped.
“I’m only shaking your hand if you give more funding to our RFS [Rural Fire Service],” the visibly reluctant woman told the PM.

Scott Morrison forcing this woman to shake his hand, then ignoring her and walking away when she tells him she doesn’t want a handshake unless he gives more funding to the RFS, is fucking disgusting - even by his low standards. #bushfiresAustralia#auspolpic.twitter.com/LX6agg3S7G
— Brendan Bradford (@1bbradfo) 2 января 2020 г.
Morrison was promptly swarmed by locals afterwards, who asked him a bunch of quite reasonable questions about very low number of fire engines that responded to the fires, lack of relief and so on – that he did not answer, however.

Scott Morrison has hastily left a meeting with bushfire victims after angry residents began yelling furiously. #9Newspic.twitter.com/q0iqmBp7to
— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) 2 января 2020 г.
The PM aimlessly roamed the street with a bunch of other officials, including the natural disasters minister David Littleproud – and their silence only angered the locals further. One man urged the official to get out of town, telling him that his electoral prospects now look quite bleak in a profanity-laden rant.
“You’re an idiot, mate. You really are. You won’t be getting any votes down here buddy… No liberal votes. You’re out son. You are out. Goodnight Vienna. Bye. Go on, p**s off.”
Pelted with further questions about those who died in the fires and the many who've lost their homes, the officials ultimately retreated to their car – without so much as a goodbye.
https://www.rt.com/news/477325-australia-pm-bushfire-victims/

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SUGGESTED ACTIONS
Get Started – Act Now!
Following are suggested actions and resources to raise awareness about the harms of 5G and other sources of EMFs; to voice objections; and to reclaim our future – one that respects and protects the well-being of all life and is informed by the resources of the Natural World. No action is too small, but we must also think big as time is of the essence. Be creative, have fun, and choose an action that resonates with your personal skill set and available time.

RAISE AWARENESS, SPEAK YOUR MIND, ENVISION AND ENSURE A BETTER TOMORROW!

Raise Awareness
RAISE AWARENESS

Raising public awareness requires nothing more than to state the bare facts. No hyperbole or spin needed – the facts speak for themselves.
Many people still have no idea what 5G, smart cities or the ‘Internet of Things’ are, but more and more people sense something has gone awry in our world where people are glued to their devices 24/7, and a frenetic “race” is on to connect every facet of our lives to the internet.

Further, when people learn that this hyper-connected world will be enabled by a combination of radiating cell towers deployed outside our homes and by tens of thousands of new satellites in space, many people are alarmed. And when they realize that our personal data is being harvested and used to fuel this initiative, alarm may turn to indignation; and many people are moved to speak out to stop this assault on us, wildlife, and the planet.

Please consider including in your materials and branding the message that we want SafeG, safe and proven wired technology, NOT 5G. For more about SafeG™, please view and share this slide show.

For a superb and practical guide on how to engage your community, city council, medical doctors, and Telcos, please read We Are the Solution, a Community Kit created jointly by a group of organizations in Australia.

SIGN THE APPEAL
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INFORM MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
PASS OUT FLYERS
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Speak Your Mind
WRITE LETTERS

Write letters to city officials, both regional and national. Here is a link to a generic letter (in English) that can be translated and will work in any country.
PDF: Letter to Legislators

WORD Version: Letter to Legislators

GOVERNMENT ON NOTICE
NEWSPAPER EDITOR LETTER
SIGN AND SHARE PETITIONS

Envision and Help Ensure A Better Tomorrow
HOST AN EVENT IN YOUR HOME

Host an afternoon or evening in your home. Invite people to “leave their cell” and join you to explore whether 5G and an all-things-wirelessly-connected world is the kind of future we want. And if not, what kind of world do we want to create and leave for our children. Consider also showing the inspiring documentary, Generation Zapped or the 2-part PBS series, Burt Wolf’s Travels And Traditions Investigates Cell Phone And Wireless Radiation.
POWER OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION

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There may be some hope for South Africa to drive the corporate monopolies out, who praised us recently for opportunities created by our new laws. Things escalated from being able to grow your own weed to paying an expensive license fee to grow for consumers. If we don't buy their stuff, license fees should drop (hopefully to zero), and consumers can buy from peaceful Rastafarians instead of violent gangsters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50664578

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I guess we will just wait until the same thing happens to us in South Africa. There is so little coming together to plan ahead and manage the landscapes properly, mitigating the oncoming heating that the methane releases from the melted ice cap and other areas guarantee. This has gone far further than merely protesting. It's more about how graciously we can all die together. Will inequality continue whilst such extreme conditions worsen for the climate. When the shit hits the fan will money save people, doesn't look like it?

We have to be ready for much more stress, and develop coping mechanisms for increasing occurance and intensity of situations. Be ready, have drills. Know what the priorities are in your neighborhoods and communities, in the factories and workplaces. Be ready for increasing disasters. Don't think the government services will cope, it's already not coping.

Take very seriously, water catchment. Design water catchment reservoirs under the ground that are fed by roads, roofs run off. Plant fire breaks with succulent plants. Clear areas as fire breaks sensibly. Prepare for floods droughts and bushfires. Protect Indigenous trees and indigenous tree thickets where ever they are. Remove alien vegetation (wattles, eucalyptus, port Jackson, Lantana, fresh water weeds) from rivers streams and dams, focusing on the edges of healthier indigenous pockets to stop the penetration into the sensitive forest valleys.

Plan for waterborne disease outbreaks, first aid, burns, keep wildlife and domestic animal first aid things. Put water out for small creatures during heat waves. Create terraces and swales to slow and capture flood water. Compost, don't burn to clear areas for cropping. Stop using agrichemicals and work with polycultures, move away from excessive irrigation for survival. Stop burning plastics and put plastic inside plastic bottles to build them into infrastructure. Help us end plastic.

Moderate your microclimate. Each and every action must be towards moderating our human effect. Giving back. Fixing, making right whats going wrong.

Gov, pull your socks up and ban plastic outright with only incredibly strict loopholes for medical and few other cases. Ban Fossil Fuels use after 2025. Ban Agrichemicals outright. Build a public transport system that will see us past fossil fuels and assist us to build sustainable Habitats for humans and other life forms. Plan for a fruitarian, plant based food future, plan for food forests and perrenial agriculture, plan future forests, plan away from coal oil and gas.

Fear has no place in what we have to do to survive. Only together do we survive, and together we can do better.

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Spread love. #AfricaUnite @[348010408570990:274:Genii Blakk] for #ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife may we be stronger and more united going into 2020. #Peace https://youtu.be/QM3y-No87Ng

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Join the Global Uprising to #Stop5G
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Wild things don't surpress it, they fight to the end. Only humans kill the own selves and all other species without even fighting it at all. That's why we won't get the Darwin award and will go extinct. We can't recognize danger when we see it or create it.

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Why don't we call it genocide?

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"record in recent decades for the highest level of ice to melt in Antarctica in one day was reached on Christmas Eve, data suggests.

Around 15 percent of the continent's surface melted on Monday, according to the Global Forecast System (GFS) by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The data comes from the Modèle Atmosphérique Régional (MAR), a model used for meteorological and climatic research.

Xavier Fettweis, a climatologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who tweeted the data on Friday, said this is the highest melt extent in Antarctica in the modern era, since 1979. He added the production of melt water is a record 230 percent higher than average since November this year. That's despite the melting season not yet being over."

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This could work

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Fire Alerts in Cameroon
There were 11,962 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was unusually high compared to the same week in previous years.

Tree cover loss in Cameroon
From 2001 to 2018, Cameroon lost 1.20Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.8% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 473Mt of CO₂ emissions.

Fire Alerts in Burkina Faso
There were 4,474 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was high compared to the same week in previous years.

Tree cover loss in Burkina Faso
From 2001 to 2018, Burkina Faso lost 131ha of tree cover, equivalent to a 99% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 25.0kt of CO₂ emissions.

Fire Alerts in Togo
There were 3,349 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was high compared to the same week in previous years.

Fire Alerts in Benin
There were 3,584 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was average compared to the same week in previous years.
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

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Syria has a huge export Industry.

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'Wrong Way Go Back'

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On the subject of choosing between irrigation and survival we including mining irrigation. Thats not even something we can justify using water for anymore. The fact that Lesotho People pay private rates for water and that mines are subsidized in SA for water is making this crises more extreme. Rather than stopping deforestation and re habilitating forests in the catchment of Lesotho to ensure the water supply and security for our whole region we just suck it out and waste it..... Water grows on trees...

"Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in an appeal for funds."

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'There will come a time and it will happen sooner in the drylands, that humans will have to choose between irrigation and survival' Bill Mollison.

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Are Billionaires even neccessary at this moment in time? Do we value Billionaires more than our Ecosystems, our Air, Water, Food, Health, Children's and future generations rights?

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The fires just getting worse.... This was days ago.

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John Pearce posted in Gaia
'2020 Vision'
As we move towards the end of 2019, we look ahead to what 2020 will bring for the green movement. Extinction Rebellion (XR) is already gearing up for a return to the streets on 13th April 2020 (Easter Monday). It remains to be seen whether this Easter Rising will be as positive as that in April 2019, which seemed to catch both the movement and the police by surprise. The successful establishment of the rebellion’s infrastructure, combined with glorious weather saw the stars aligned for XR. The police will not be surprised again. The pro-active policing seen in October will be repeated, though perhaps without the blanket ban on protests after the London-wide “s.14” notice was deemed to be an over-reach of power.
The political scientist Erica Chenoweth, co-author with Maria Stephan of “Why Civil Resistance Works”, proposes that for a rebellion to have the best chance of success it needs to get at least the much-quoted 3.5% of the population on the streets. XR is a very long way from this figure. Estimates of numbers on the streets during the April and October 2019 rebellions are that there were perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 involved. That number would need to increase nearly 100-fold to get near the critical mass Chenoweth and XR’s master strategist Roger Hallam consider necessary. At the moment there seems little prospect of XR getting anywhere near those numbers unless there is a step change. Many remember the huge marches for a second Brexit referendum, or the even larger march against the Blair/Bush reckless war in Iraq, easily brushed aside.
Hallam’s approach is to occupy space in the centre of a capital city for as long as it takes. However that requires huge numbers as people come and go due to other commitments, and massive energy, strength and tenacity to remain on streets in harsh conditions. One of XR’s greatest challenges now is to work out how to engage and involve far more people, to appeal to a wider demographic beyond Boris’s “crusties” and the concerned middle classes, and how to break out of the usual suspects. That will involve reaching out into other communities and interest groups, and also involving the union movement, a huge challenge and very little time to achieve it.
XR also faces an array of challenges. It needs to avoid activists becoming disillusioned and frustrated with organisational and communication problems. It must somehow unify anarchists opposed to leaders and suspicious of “founder’s syndrome”, and those wanting clearer direction, rather than milling around in sometimes shambolic peoples’ assemblies. There remain issues to resolve over how giving autonomy can avoid ill-judged actions being carried out against the wishes of the majority, and leading to PR disasters that lose support. The limited ethnic and class diversity will continue to give rise to criticism. There will be tensions between those who want more militant actions, and those favouring the fun like the “discobedience” “Staying Alive” dancing. XR will also now be infiltrated by police and those out to cause mischief, sow dissent and seeking to ridicule. There may be agents provocateurs wanting to discredit us. So many challenges, so little time.
Without the numbers there is a risk that repeating the rebellion becomes more of a twice-annual well-intentioned reunion for activists, going through the motions and never getting anywhere near the tipping point, causing a nuisance to Londoners without delivering any benefits. We may be causing disruption for a reason, but we won’t be thanked for it. Voluntary austerity is a hard sell. Similarly the novelty, surprise and eye-catching elements like the pink boat and the red rebels risk becoming like a band running through its greatest hits. However XR has shown that it does have the capacity to surprise and innovate, and sometimes an organisational ability beyond expectations
The other leading light in XR, Gail Bradbrook, has spoken of Hallam as providing the “codes for social change”, of which she had visions. XR has probably far exceeded their expectations in the way it has captured imaginations around the world, with the wide adoption of its logo and modus operandi. However even with that success, XR has yet to achieve the policy and system changes it is demanding.
2020 will see the Citizens Assemblies start their work as the 30,000 contacted are whittled down by sortition to 110. They will convene in Birmingham to decide on how we reduce carbon emissions. What if they decide they actually quite like a consumer life style and the Aladdin’s cave that capitalism has opened up to those fortunate enough to have money to enjoy it, that they quite like driving, and flying on foreign holidays? Citizens Assemblies may not be quite the silver bullet that XR hopes.
2020 will also see the continuing and growing signs of climate and ecological catastrophe as tipping points kick in, from the Amazon, Arctic, Greenland, the Great Barrier Reef, to the Antarctica and elsewhere. It is all happening much faster than many of us, and the scientists predicted. There are likely to be dramatic and unexpected feedback loops and events, as the established ocean currents and weather systems that have been relatively benign change unexpectedly. Climate science is fiendishly complicated, with so many interacting variables, that even the most complex computer models cannot be relied on. If we have learnt anything, it is to expect the unexpected. We may think we are in the driving seat only to realise that things have now runaway with us and we are too late. We will see growing numbers of climate refugees.
We will see growing Siren calls for geo-engineering to be tried out at scale, in many cases backed by those with vested interest in supporting the fossil-fuelled status quo. These trials will be dangerous and controversial, risking unforeseen and unwanted side-effects. Whether it is adding lead to petrol, CFCs to aerosols in fridges, or wrapping everything in plastic, we don’t have an unblemished record when it comes to scientific fixes.
November 2020 will see the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) talks hosted in Glasgow. There is a breath-taking audacity in the Conservative government bidding to host this event given the dismal, derisory and dilatory nature of its whole approach to environmental issues. Former Prime-Minister David Cameron was quick to get rid of “the green crap” when the financial crisis struck. Conservative policies are a litany of what Jonathon Porritt would label procrastination, prevarication and obfuscation.
The fuel duty escalator that was meant to wean drivers away from the motor car and towards cycling, walking, and public transport was long ago abandoned, quickly sacrificed for electoral advantage and short-term thinking. Onshore wind, a quick and easy win for renewable energy is now effectively impossible due to changes to the planning regime. There is a bottomless pit of money for new and widened roads, a pittance for buses and trains, where fares soar. Solar panel subsidies via the feed-in tariff have been scrapped. Heathrow is to be expanded, HS2 rail-roaded through ancient woodlands. There have been endless consultations but minimal progress in reducing the tsunami of plastic. The Conservatives claim to be leading the world in reducing emissions but the reality is that this is only by not counting off-shored manufacturing emissions, and there is no reckoning for the historical emissions of our early industrial revolution. You name it, when it comes to the environment the Conservatives have comprehensively flunked it.
No doubt there will be some green rabbits to be pulled out of the hat to burnish their creaking credentials nearer the time, but it will be all smoke and mirrors. The Glasgow conference will offer a focal point for protestors keen to highlight the government’s failings and push for progress, but Scotland in November will not be a time of year for occupying streets. Policing will be heavy, so protests will need to be innovative. However Glasgow offers a good opportunity to highlight and lever the need for urgent and real change.

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"Do you think it's funny that our oceans are dying?"

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Start cleaning up our mess...

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This time is very precious, events are unfolding faster than anticipated. If you followed COP 25 and the UK elections it's clear those in power have decided to sacrifice life on Earth for short term profit and that the right wing are controlling the narrative.

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Modern day slavery and we are all supporters of it.

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Oh, frack that! There's no environmental damage that the climate change conspiracy theorists claim. Keep shopping and cleaning up our mess. Save our global growth economy from environmental concerns.
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Many of the warnings from the scientists probably never escaped the social media echo-chambers. The science does not have the market forces on it's side... The big polluters have demonstrated that they have the money to keep suppressing the truth. State security is observed to be getting more authoritarian as the crisis starts to unfold. Tough times are here already.

"What’s holding back rapid and radical action? Chiefly profit-seeking, future-be-damned fossil fuel corporations, financial systems that invest and trade in them for short term gain, corporate media that entertains and avoids hard truth, and governments bought off by fossil fuel industries and that deny the climate crisis, our own being the worst case, as the world “hurtles” toward untold human suffering."

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-science-is-screaming-2/

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Really impressive interactive Climate Dashboard by MIT - (beta) https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6

Now you, South Africa, before you can't figure out what to do with the mess.

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Sugar coating the climate crisis is unhelpful. Telling people there is something we can really do to stop it is unfair. We are facing ABRUPT IRREVERSABLE Climate Change.

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She called it necro-politics and the necro-economy

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Watch all of a sudden there will be. A regime change...

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REALLY GOOD ARTICLE PLEASE SHARE 'There are a number of ways that we can ensure new forests are resilient to these impacts. First, having a diversity of species with a wide variety of traits in the forest landscape reduces the risk that a single event will wipe out large parts of the ecosystem. This is because tree species have different resistances and vulnerabilities.'

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'Carbon-fuelled capitalism, enriched by the wealth stolen through colonialism, enabled the countries of Europe and North America to enhance the wellbeing of their populations. The extreme inequalities between the standard of living for the average European (742 million people) and the average Indian (1.4 billion people) is as stark as it was a century ago. The reliance by China, India and other developing countries on carbon – particularly coal – is high; but even this use of carbon has not raised the per capita emissions of China and India above that of the US, whose per capita emissions are almost twice as much as China’s per capita emissions.'

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Exemptions.....

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'When seen from this perspective, everything becomes clearer. In the face of the climate crisis, the main priority of the global ruling class and its political servants is to batten down the hatches. Publicly, they’re telling school kids not to worry about the future. Behind the scenes, however – in the cabinet offices, boardrooms, mansions and military high commands – they’re hard at work, planning for a future in which they can maintain their power and privilege amid the chaos and destruction of the burning world around them.

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We’re not, as some in the environment movement argue, “all in this together”. There are many ways in which the wealthy minority at the top of society are already protected from the worst climate change impacts. Big corporations can afford to spend millions on mitigating climate change risks – ensuring their assets are protected so they can keep their business running even during a major disaster. Businesses and wealthy individuals can also protect themselves by taking out insurance policies that will pay out if their property is damaged in a flood, fire or other climate-related disaster.

The rich are also protected from climate change on a more day to day level. They tend to live in the leafiest suburbs, in large, climate-controlled houses. They have shorter commutes to work, where, again, they’re most often to be found in the most comfortable, air-conditioned buildings. They’re not the ones working on farms or construction sites, in factories or warehouses – struggling with the increasing frequency of summer heatwaves. They’re not the ones living in houses with no air conditioning, sweating their way through stifling summer nights. They have pools and manicured lawns and can afford their own large water tanks to keep their gardens green in the hot, dry summer months.

What about in the most extreme scenarios, where what we might call the “natural defences” enjoyed by the wealthy are bound to fail? What happens when the firestorms bear down on their country retreats or rising seas threaten their beach houses? Money, it turns out, goes a long way. In November 2018, for instance, when large areas of California were engulfed in flames, and more than 100 people burned to death, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian hired their own private firefighting crew to save their US$50 million Calabasas mansion.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the city’s wealthiest residents evacuated well in advance and hired a private army of security guards from companies such as Blackwater to protect their homes and possessions from the mass of poor, mainly Black residents who were left behind. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill went to the city in the aftermath of the hurricane and witnessed first-hand the highly militarised and racialised nature of the response. One security contractor, hired by a local businessman, told Scahill his team had been fired on by “Black gangbangers”, in response to which the contractors “unleashed a barrage of bullets in the general direction of the alleged shooters ... ‘After that, all I heard was moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. That was it. Enough said’”.

In the event of disaster, the response of the rich hasn’t been to work with others to ensure the collective security of all those affected. It has been to use all resources at their disposal to protect themselves and their property. And increasingly, as in New Orleans, this protection has come in the form of armed violence directed at those less well off – people whose desperation, they fear, could turn them into a threat.

The most forward thinking of the super-rich are aware that we’re heading toward a future of ecological and social break-down. And they’re keen to keep ahead of the curve by investing today in the things they’ll need to survive. Writing in the Guardian in 2018, media theorist and futurist Douglas Rushkoff related his experience of being paid half his annual salary to speak at “a super-deluxe private resort ... on the subject of ‘the future of technology’”. He was expecting a room full of investment bankers. When he arrived, however, he was introduced to “five super-wealthy guys ... from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world”. Rushkoff wrote:

“After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own ... Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? ... Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: ‘How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?’

“The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down ... They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for survival.”

There’s a reason these conversations go on only behind closed doors. If your plan is to allow the world to spiral towards mass death and destruction while you retreat to a bunker in the south island of New Zealand or some other isolated area to live out your days in comfort, protected by armed guards whose loyalty you maintain by threat of death, you’re unlikely to win much in the way of public support. Better to keep the militarised bunker thing on the low-down and keep people thinking that “we’re all in this together” and if we just install solar panels, recycle more, ride to work and so on we’ll somehow turn it all around and march arm in arm towards a happy and sustainable future.

The rich don’t have to depend only on themselves. Their most powerful, and well-armed, protector is the capitalist state, which they can rely on to advance their interests even when those may conflict with the imperative to preserve some semblance of civilisation. This is where people like Morrison come in. They’re the ones who have been delegated the task, as Karl Marx put it in the Communist Manifesto, of “managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”. In the context of climate change, this means taking the steps necessary to ensure the continued ability of the capitalist class to profit even if the world may be unravelling into ecological breakdown and social chaos.

There are three main ways in which Australia and other world powers are working toward this. First, they’re building their military might – spending billions of dollars on ensuring they have the best means of destruction at their disposal to help project their power in an increasingly unstable world. Second, they’re building walls and brutal detention regimes to make sure borders can be crossed only by those deemed necessary to the requirements of profit making. Third, they’re enhancing their repressive apparatus by passing anti-protest laws and expanding and granting new powers to the police and security agencies to help crush dissent at home.

Military strategists have been awake to the implications of climate change for a long time. As early as 2003, in a report commissioned by the Pentagon, US researchers Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall argued that “violence and disruption stemming from the stresses created by abrupt changes in the climate pose a different type of threat to national security than we are accustomed to today. Military confrontation may be triggered by a desperate need for natural resources such as energy, food, and water rather than conflicts over ideology, religion, or national honor. The shifting motivation for confrontation would alter which countries are most vulnerable and the existing warning signs of security threats”.

More recently, a 2015 US Department of Defense memorandum to Congress argued: “Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water. These impacts are already occurring, and the scope, scale and intensity of these impacts are projected to increase over time”.

The Australian military has also been preparing for an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment driven in part by the impact of climate change. The 2009 Defence White Paper included a section, “New Security Concerns: Climate Change and Resource Scarcity”, which pointed to the vulnerabilities of many countries in our region. The paper was explicit in linking these to a possible increase in “threats inimical to our interests” and suggested that military capabilities would need to be strengthened accordingly. A 2018 Senate inquiry into the implications of climate change for “national security” drew similar conclusions.

Although discussions about military preparedness are often pitched in terms of the need for increased development assistance, disaster relief and so on, the practice of the US, Australian and other military powers over the past few decades leaves little room for doubt as to what their role will be. When they’re not invading countries on the other side of the world – killing hundreds of thousands, reducing cities to rubble and imprisoning and torturing anyone who opposes them – to secure access to fossil fuels, they’re acting as the enforcers of capitalist interests closer to home.

The response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is again a good example. When troops from the US National Guard joined the army of private contractors sent to establish “security” amid the death and destruction of the hurricane’s aftermath, the Army Times described their role as quashing “the insurgency in the city”. The paper quoted brigadier general Gary Jones as saying, “This place is going to look like Little Somalia. We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control”. A similar dynamic was at work in Australia when, in 2007, the Howard government sent troops to establish “order” in remote Indigenous communities as part of the racist Northern Territory Intervention.

The idea that the military could be a force for good in the context of environmental catastrophe and social breakdown is laughable. Whatever the rhetoric, the role of the military is to secure the interests of a nation’s capitalist class amid the competitive global scramble for resources and markets. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had it right when he argued in 1999: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist – McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps”. The military are gangsters for capitalism. And in the future, they’re likely to double down on savagery.

The next way in which the world’s most powerful capitalist states are preparing for climate catastrophe is by massively increasing what’s euphemistically called “border security”. In 2019, Germany celebrated 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event supposedly ushering in a new age of freedom and democracy. In the decades since, however, European countries have built around 1,000 kilometres of new border walls and fences – six times the length of that hated symbol of totalitarianism in Berlin. Most have been constructed since 2015, when millions of Syrians were forced to flee and seek sanctuary in Europe amid a brutal civil war that was triggered in part, at least, by climate change.'

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Let's start the new day with a joke.

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You see all the system we living under is Insane...

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What does a #JustTransition mean and how can #ExtinctionRebellion help with bring #Accountability for the damage done to the planet by the powers that be? Will those who are suffering see any #Justice or #Reparations?

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LET”S GET SERIOUS - THE PARTY IS OVER

'As I listened to climate scientist Peter Walker’s devastating analysis of COP 25 in which he made it utterly clear that we are accelerating headlong towards total cataclysm ; as I thought back to Roger Hallam’s fire and brimstone talks about the collapse of civilisation ; as I thought about Greta’s fury at our leaders’ complete lack of recognition of the scale of our predicament; as I then thought about the daily stories of climate catastrophes across the world ; as I thought of the Amazon on fire and Sydney in an apocalyptic haze ; as I thought about the incalculably horrendous scale of the ecocide that we humans are inflicting on our planet ,I realised that, as a Movement , even Extinction Rebellion is in a state of partial denial .
The party is over . It was fun , it was vitally important but it’s over - the days of pink boats and samba bands and yoga in Trafalgar Square and people meekly blocking roads waiting to be arrested are SO inappropriate to the level of the emergency we face , that not only are they no longer helping our cause , but they are reinforcing public opinion that everything is actually OK. We are actually complicit in helping to create a global Bystander Effect : because our behaviour is so normal , so ‘civilised’, so quaint , the public don’t have to begin to engage with the horror which we Extinction Rebellion members have to face on a daily basis - they find it all too easy to dismiss us as a bunch of well-meaning cranks and our statements as hardly worthy of consideration.
Time is running out- we say it , but mostly we don’t act as if it really is . The house is on fire and we are still playing in the bedroom . What we have to do right now is to totally transform our messaging . This really is a fucking emergency . The time for talking has ended . We have to become the prophets of doom - we don’t want the job , but we have no other choice . This is a fucking emergency. We have to make people uncomfortable , we have to make them shit their pants .We have to wake them up in the night from their nightmares and make them realise that their waking lives will soon be nightmares, and that for many across the world they already are .
I’m not saying we should abandon our values , far from it ( though I think tearing down a few statues wouldn’t go amiss )- they are the sort of values which will have to underpin the new world we have to create - BUT we’ve got to stop pussy-footing around people for fear of upsetting them, we’ve got to stop shielding people from the truth - even children have to be made aware in no uncertain terms where we adults are leading them unless we act right now.
Of course behind closed doors we need to find ways of regenerating , of avoiding becoming demoralised , even of having fun - but in public we need to find ways to act out the horror and destruction which lie ahead - and we have to carry on doing it until people finally get the message - that we’re telling the truth and that unless they wake the fuck up right now , we’re all fucked .
We are Extinction Rebellion . We have to rebel against extinction . Let’s drop the XR shorthand , lest we forget who we are . It was fear, not a search for a better social life , which made me join Extinction Rebellion - I read the IPCC 2108 report . As it happens , I’ve found that the rebellion is full of wonderful people , who have become essential to my wellbeing in the light of what we have to face together . Community is what helps me face my fear . But fear had to come first , not community .
Let’s not hold a party for the end of the world . Let’s not let it happen. Let’s get serious.'

Grant Stewart Extinction Rebellion Elder

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How can they remember the animals, the birds, the life in the sea? They never saw these things did they? They only know the sterilized landscapes previous generations bequeathed to them.

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Busting the Myth of Race altogether.

All the scientists agree on 1.5 degrees - they say we need to reduce emissions globally urgently. We need a sense of urgency "every year matters" - this #COP25 is another mockery of science setup to fail so that things don't change. We need change - this requires us to acknowledge the danger of the GHG emissions. https://youtu.be/oa13KrOvE2s

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While Australia is burning their mining companies continue to commit ecocide in Africa. "Australia is a giant in African mining, but its vast — and in some cases deadly — footprint has never been examined.

Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations." https://www.icij.org/investigations/fatal-extraction/

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What a disgrace, the Australian government havnt organized enough masks for their fire fighters. Now they have been forced to crowd fund them. It's time the conservative middle class elements realize the Elite Society doesn't care about them or the working class. Hats off to Australia's Firefighters braving the heat, smoke and flames. Hats up to the groups of volunteers in the forests that are supposed to remain wet all the time but fire has been burning even in those areas. Some are privately owned nature reserves. People can't rely on the benevolence of Elites at this time. Money will become meaningless. Stamping out fires in the tropical jungles of Australia to protect the most ancient ecosystem on the planet seems an entirely voluntary activity. Containing the most ancient genetics from a time when Antarctica and Australia were still attached to South America. As the Antarctic has been under ice for so long its the only piece of that left. The Kaola Bears are now facing functional extinction. They just couldn't get away from the fires fast enough, they couldn't hop from tree to tree fast enough, neither do they readily breed. They can't breed in captivity at all. About 2000 Kaolas burned to death, we will never know exactly, a third of their entire habitat has been destroyed. What will it take for the Australian government to get its head out of the hot sand?

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Go Ghana ❤️

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We can stop using plastic straws and eat plant based food but the war machine keeps grinding. Denel didn't make the top 100 but the modernization of weapons and increasing budgets from Europe, Russia and the USA are indicators that things are getting hotter.
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Must WATCH ⌚😢💦😍 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=f7COcd_OVRQ

Updated Dec 10, 2019, 9:01 PM

We wonder what's happening in South Africa in this regard? Not sure about the factual nature of these maps at all, But Sifting through it...'With all of this knowledge of future mapping, do the world’s financial leaders know something we don’t? Consider how many of the richest families have been grabbing up massive amounts of farmland around the world. All property is far away from coastal areas, and in locations conducive to self-survival, farming and coal mining.

It appears that dry territories in the United States such as Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming and Texas are all very popular regions for the wealthiest individuals. Billionaires such as John Malone (currently the largest landowner in America, owns 2,200,000 acres including Wyoming and Colorado), Ted Turner (2,000,000 acres in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico and North Dakota), Philip Anschultz (434,000 acres in Wyoming), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (400,000 acres in Texas) and Stan Kroenke (225,162 acres in Montana) all have amassed major land. Upon further research, many billionaires are preparing for future escape plans with “vacation homes” in remote locations. Many of them also have their private planes ready to depart at a moment’s notice.

Billionaire Bill Gates recently acquired 28,000 acres in Arizona to create his own city called Belmont. According to the company announcement; “Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs.” The company details the plans including; 3,800 acres for office, commercial and retail space, 470 acres for public schools and there are plans for 80,000 residential units. “Belmont will transform a raw, blank land into a futuristic city built around a flexible infrastructure model” added Belmont Properties.

Even a wealthy member of the Mormon church, David Hall reportedly had plans for 20,000 person self-sustained communities throughout the country, including the first in Vermont with a recent 900-acre farmland purchase. The communities would have been called NewVistas, but local opposition killed the development plans.

Internationally, moguls in Australia and New Zealand have been snapping up farmland at record paces. The interest in cattle, dairy and agricultural farms are all proving tempting for self-sustained survival. But more importantly the wealthy are preparing for safe escape havens, stockpiling real estate in dry areas and moving away from the old-school approach of storing food and water. Money and precious metals will be useless, as self sustainable territory will become the new necessary luxury. Many have installed helipads on their properties for easy access and many are buying up Silos and bunkers around the world.'

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We export Uranium, it's likely to be mined in Sub Saharan Africa, or possibly in 4 corners reservation.

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Really great insights into #ClimateJustice and strategies to address issues we are facing.

#ClimateJustice brilliant speech really helps deeper understanding of the issues we face and strategies going forward well worth watching.

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#ClimateJustice brilliant speech really helps deeper understanding of the issues we face and strategies going forward well worth watching.

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What was once part of a forest now looks like a warn-out carpet.
"Companies operating and exploring in Brazil are mainly after iron ore (the country is the world’s top producer of the steel-making ingredient) and gold, though the nation also holds large reserves of bauxite, manganese and potash. It is also Latin America’s No. 1 oil producer."

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