Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown
published in the Guardian 19th October 2016
The correct question is not “where?”. It is “whether?”. And the correct answer is no. The prime minister has just announced that her cabinet will recommend where a new runway should be built. Then there will be a consultation on the decision. There is only one answer that doesn’t involve abandoning our climate change commitments and our moral scruples: nowhere.
All it took was a pair of bolt cutters and the elbow grease of a few climate activists to carry out an audacious act of sabotage on North America's massive oil and gas pipeline system.
For an industry increasingly reliant on gadgets such as digital sensors, infrared cameras and drones to monitor security and check for leaks, the sabotage illustrated how vulnerable pipelines are to low-tech attacks.
On Tuesday, climate activists broke through fences and cut locks and chains simultaneously in several states and simply turned the pipelines off.
“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to the people in Dakota,” Piaguaje told teleSUR.
Indigenous groups affected by the contamination of Chevron in Ecuador—led by Humberto Piaguaje—joined the Native Americans protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in the state of North Dakota in the U.S.
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Residents of Baracoa, Cuba, begin to dig out after Hurricane Matthew destroyed dozens of homes.
While much of Cuba was spared the wrath of Hurricane Matthew, some areas were devastated by flooding and storm surge.
Residents of Baracoa, Cuba, are digging out rubble that was left after Hurricane Matthew hit the eastern portion of the country with heavy flooding and strong storm surge.
Perhaps the most revealing words on the topic of globalization in recent years came not from the pen of Thomas Piketty, nor were they written by Robert Reich or Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman — rather, they can be found in the pages of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, written by the notorious New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
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Germany have agreed to permanently ban fracking in the country following years of debate over the issue.
The coalition government have said that they will outlaw the practise of fracking for shale gas, but will allow test drilling to take place in certain circumstances.
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A new leak provides further confirmation that the pro-corporate TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the U.S. and European Union would result in "a giant leap backward in our fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground."
!['Whether she is writing of Kashmir or of the Palestinians, of American foreign policy or of terror in the Middle East, of environmental degradation or of the threat posed by nuclear proliferation, [author and activist Arundhati] Roy,' writes Johnson, 'maintains a sense of hope, one that jumps from the page even in the midst of her devastating polemics.' (Photo: jeanbaptisteparis/flickr/cc)](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/arundhati_roy.jpg?itok=Oo5ZSczB)
