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COVID-19: Underlying Causes, Human Rights Abuses and Ecological Destruction COVID-19 and Capitalism FROM FANON TO VENTILATORS: FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO BREATHE (6 MAY 2020) CORONAVIRUS FIGHT: UN CHIEF SAYS WORLD LEADERS ARE FALLING SHORT (1 MAY 2020) CORONAVIRUS: US...
Apr 2, 2020 | COVID and Capitalism, COVID Link to Industrial Agriculture, COVID: All Posts, Social Media News
Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination Climate & Capitalism 11 Mar 2020 The new coronavirus is keeping the world in a state of shock. But instead of fighting the structural causes of the pandemic, the government is focusing on emergency...
Apr 2, 2020 | COVID Link to Industrial Agriculture, COVID: All Posts, Social Media News
Another critical reason to oppose industrial livestock farming. We already know that industrial agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis, and for years alarms have been raised about the inhumane treatment of industrial livestock animals. Now this new...
Mar 18, 2020 | COVID and Capitalism, COVID Link to Industrial Agriculture, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Deforestation, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Forests, Paraguay, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Soy plantation in Paraguay. Photo: Langelle/GJEP Fifty percent of the deforestation in eastern Paraguay is caused by the conversion of forests to soy monocultures. In the Chaco region, home to uncontacted Ayoreo tribes, most of the deforestation is taking place to...
Mar 18, 2020 | all other, COVID Link to Industrial Agriculture, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News
A logger (employed by a South Korean multinational corporation) with a chainsaw in the Bosawas rainforest; the Bosawas is the largest rainforest north of the Amazon Basin. Illegal logging threatens the rainforest’s biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples. (Nicaragua...