Apr 1, 2020 | COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID Use for Political Repression, COVID: All Posts, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Social Media News
Late last week, the Environmental Protection Agency suspended enforcement of US environmental laws using the coronavirus outbreak as the excuse to greenlight environmental destruction. The Hill quoted Cynthia Giles, head of EPA’s Enforcement Office under Obama: “This...
Mar 31, 2020 | COVID and Capitalism, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Social Media News
As you may have heard by now, a memo was recently released that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement of environmental laws was suspended due to COVID-19. The Department of the Interior (DOI) is also moving forward with actions that expose...
Mar 27, 2020 | COVID and Capitalism, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Featured, Forests, Latin America, Rainforest, Social Media News, Uncategorized, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Road construction into the Lacandon Rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico, 1996. Photo: Langelle/GJEP COVID-19 and Capitalism: ‘Pandemics… have their roots in environmental change and ecosystem disturbances’ Daily Maverick 24 Mar 2020 Dale T. McKinley As the escalating crisis...
Mar 27, 2020 | COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Social Media News
Photo: The Keesing Lab Dr. Felicia Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, U.S.A., received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species,...
Mar 26, 2020 | all other, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, COVID19 & Indigenous Peoples, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Indigenous man. Espirito Santo, Brazil, November 2005. Tupinikim and Guaraní peoples cut down a plantation of eucalyptus trees owned by Aracruz Celulose to rebuild this village in its traditional location. The village had been forcibly removed to make room for the...
Mar 20, 2020 | Climate Justice, COVID and Capitalism, COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID-19 and Mutual Aid, COVID: All Posts, Featured, Forests, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News
Photo: Oil palm plantation invades the rainforest. Photo: courtesy World Rainforest Movement Global Justice Ecology Project: About COVID-19 – Resources and Information Dear friends and supporters Global Justice Ecology Project, We, like you, are doing all we can to...
