tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67544407206373073122023-11-16T11:31:48.059+01:00EcowarNotes on links between conflict and natural resources.Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-37736249275460542232018-09-06T18:47:00.001+02:002018-09-06T18:47:16.054+02:00ECOWAR has moved - update your bookmark and subscription now!Ecowar is now published in a new corner of ecowar.eu - not here! Go there, bookmark it, subscribe to the RSS feed, please.
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Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-14862507279360651622017-11-28T18:18:00.001+01:002017-12-18T18:29:33.756+01:00Nej, tusindvis af nye videnskabelige studier har IKKE "trukket i klima-skeptisk retning"[Dette indlæg er også bragt på ScienceBlog.dk - giv os et klik!]
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Civilingeniør Frank Lansner viderebringer i sin blog på Børsen en variant af en falsk nyhed, der for tiden er trendy i klimabenægtende kredse: at en masse ny forskning skulle modbevise menneskeskabte klimaforandringer. Han skriver blandt andet:
"Det vælter ind med resultater der trækker I klima-skeptisk retning. [...] De 2 Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-6223999250713511772017-11-19T22:06:00.001+01:002017-11-19T22:06:15.469+01:00German professor Harald Welzer: "we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st century, and many of these conflicts will spring from climate change"
"You always have a higher potential for violent conflict when the survival conditions of groups of people are threatened. [...] if all these scientists and climate researchers are right, or even close to right, what does it mean for greater potential for violent conflict? I think the answers are not encouraging."
"My belief is that we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-63131641243724549642017-04-23T00:01:00.002+02:002017-04-23T00:01:24.767+02:00Afgørelsens time (Time to choose)
"Hvis man ser på lande, der er afhængige af naturlige ressourcer, ser man en sløv udvikling, stor ulighed, autoritære regimer og udbredt korruption." - Peter Lewis, John Hopkins University
"I hele verden, i Saudi-Arabien, Iran, Irak, Rusland og Afrika, fører olie til korruption, diktatur og krig. Verden ville være et bedre sted, hvis vi ikke havde brug for olie. Og det har vi snart ikke Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-9350596206928327912017-02-26T15:35:00.000+01:002017-02-26T15:41:52.242+01:00Trump åbner for import af mineraler fra krigszonerPræsident Donald Trump planlægger at suspendere en lov, der pålægger amerikanske virksomheder åbenhed om oprindelsen af de råstoffer, de bruger. Dermed vil blandt andet såkaldte blod-diamanter atter frit kunne importeres fra for eksempel Congo.
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Afsnit 1502 i "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection"-loven, der blev indført under Barack Obama i 2010, Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-7843630156389660162017-02-20T22:47:00.003+01:002017-02-20T22:47:49.266+01:00Invitation to fight the ecowarI need YOU to write Ecowar.
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Stod Israel bag? Stod USA bag? Hvordan kunne det lade sig gøre at inficere det topsikre anlæg? Og ikke mindst: Hvad Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-30960074320591753212016-11-01T21:21:00.000+01:002016-11-01T21:33:50.291+01:00USA: Protester imod forvaltning af naturreservater behandles forskelligtDe amerikanske myndigheders reaktion på demonstrationer og aktivisme kan være vidt forskellige. To nylige eksempler ridser forskellene op i skarp kontrast.
Eksempel 1: Bundy-brødrenes besættelse af et naturreservat
I januar 2016 besatte en gruppe svært bevæbnede, hvide mænd iklædt skudsikre veste, camouflagetøj og cowboyhatte Malheur National Wildlife Refuge i Oregon, USA. De ville protestere Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-89743949730601408612016-07-16T12:38:00.000+02:002016-07-16T12:38:55.477+02:00Chilcot-rapport: Irak-krigen handlede om olieChilcot-rapporten, der evaluerer Storbritanniens deltagelse i invasionen og besættelsen af Irak, afslører, at olie spillede en vigtig rolle for briterne. Og at briterne og amerikanerne udkæmpede en diplomatisk kamp om olien.
"Det ville være upassende for den britiske regering at indgå i diskussioner om fremtidig fordeling af Iraks olieindustri," sagde Sir David Manning, Tony Blairs Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-15778675384953363852016-05-25T19:30:00.001+02:002016-05-25T19:30:19.991+02:00Surprise: Few wars are primarily about oilThe Washington Post recently published Oil wars: Why nations aren’t battling over resources by Emily Meierding. Does this article remove the entire foundation of this blog and the book I made of it?
Pointing at "invasion costs, occupation costs, international costs and investment costs", Emily Meierding says oil wars are just not worth fighting. With reference to The Falklands War (1982), The Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-61672116998808017102016-05-07T22:11:00.000+02:002016-05-25T18:59:31.336+02:00Food Security and Conflict - speech and debateFood Security and Conflict debate by Food Tank. Keynote speaker: David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World.
"The main concentration of world hunger now is in countries that are struggling with conflict."
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In this series on lawlessness on the high seas, Ian Urbina reveals that crime and violence in international waters often goes unpunished.
In particular, ‘SEA SLAVES’: THE HUMAN MISERY THAT FEEDS PETS AND LIVESTOCK reports of slavery-like working conditions onboard.
“Life at sea is cheap,” said Phil Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-32989054009246980372014-12-24T00:37:00.001+01:002014-12-24T00:39:51.503+01:002014 bookmarks - the year in war over natural resourcesFrom the depths of my bookmarks (that were all automatically
tweeted) on conflict and natural resources, here is a quick
review of the way in which Earth was plundered for natural resources
in the past year. Year
2014, the 100th anniversary of the first war to run on
oil.
In short, 2014 was just more of the same. Like...
Geneva
Conventions once again violated in Palestine as the
conflict Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-65662320712785130782014-04-07T17:34:00.000+02:002014-04-07T17:34:11.385+02:00Watch this one hour preview of Years of Living DangerouslyFrom the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change.
This episode full of footage from Syria, Texas and Indonesia. Watch it.
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But 2013 was another year with an abundance of news stories about conflict linked to natural Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-56996451998578664492013-11-01T22:36:00.000+01:002013-11-01T22:36:30.921+01:00All wars are caused by the economyJust kidding. Then again...
Prince Charles recently gave a speech in which he mentioned the causality behind the Syrian civil war as well as the financial system.
"The tragic conflict in Syria provides a terrifyingly graphic example, where a severe drought for the last seven years has decimated Syria's rural economy [...] Driving many farmers off their fields and into cities where, already, Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-37553384792166673582013-06-19T21:43:00.000+02:002013-06-19T21:49:26.561+02:00Noam Chomsky explains how to destroy the futureDuring a broad scope text on the suicidal tendencies of our global society Noam Chomsky touches a couple of resource conflict topics.
all over the world – Australia, India, South America – there are battles going on, sometimes wars. In India, it's a major war over direct environmental destruction, with tribal societies trying to resist resource extraction operations that are extremely harmful Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-5108285429278856212013-05-19T10:01:00.000+02:002013-05-19T10:01:05.792+02:00"Without Water, Revolution"From Without Water, Revolution by Thomas L. Friedman on The New York Times:
THIS Syrian disaster is like a superstorm. It’s what happens when an extreme weather event, the worst drought in Syria’s modern history, combines with a fast-growing population and a repressive and corrupt regime and unleashes extreme sectarian and religious passions, fueled by money from rival outside powers
"The Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-20536737920929240372013-05-04T13:40:00.000+02:002013-05-04T14:08:37.960+02:00For the youth
[Wikipedia]
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He has painted "more than 50" puppies!?
However, after posting this breaking news to Facebook, a friend of mine pointed out the cosmos in this chaos. It's been 23 years in the making...
Too many puppies are Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-79285425408120807582013-01-08T19:09:00.001+01:002013-01-09T18:37:03.452+01:00Review: EARTH WARS - The Battle for Global Resources
"If the Earth wars were a sporting contest, here's how the half-time score might stand at the beginning of 2012..."
Georff Hiscock concludes his near 300 pages factual account of who owns the world with a surprisingly relaxed "scoreboard":
1st: USA 10 points
2nd: China 8p
3rd - 4th: Europe, Japan 6p
5th - 6th: Russia, India 5p
7th: Brazil 4p
8th - 10th: Mexico, Canada, Australia 3p
11th - Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-54969580883782636042013-01-07T22:52:00.002+01:002013-01-09T23:19:24.046+01:00Call for moratorium on extraction in contested territoriesAs can be seen in this recent infographic by Information is Beautiful and The Guardian, we need to leave about 86 percent of known fossil fuel resources in the ground to stay within our carbon budget and hopefully avoid raising global temperatures by more than two degrees Celsius. Still exploration and extraction continues unabated.
However, some resources are in undergrounds below contested Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-43018903537429843372012-11-02T20:54:00.001+01:002012-11-02T23:13:42.866+01:00Come to GreenlandIsland for sale. 2,166,000 km² (mostly still ice). 56,744 inhabitants (many working at minimum wage, animosity towards Greenpeace is legendary).
Watch some of the world's last ice melt to reveal a wealth of riches below. Copper, zinc, iron, gold. Make your investment before it's taken.
Look at all the deposits that have already been found.
Off shore the most daring oil companies are already Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-14144900621451012452012-09-10T08:44:00.002+02:002012-09-10T08:44:53.766+02:00Government soldiers and rebel insurgents are slaughtering hundreds of elephantsProtecting endangered wildlife is not just about donating to WWF, funding parks, keeping endangered lizards as "pets" and abstaining from buying ivory. It's an arms race and it's fighting a war. In 2012 the poachers have gone on blitz krieg killing more elephants than ever before, operating across borders from helicopters and shooting at park rangers who are forced to retreat. And it's not just Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-16726921363096303002012-09-01T11:04:00.002+02:002012-09-01T11:04:54.876+02:00Amazonian tribal village razed, 80 people massacred by minersSeveral places in the Amazon illegal miners and loggers clash with indigenous tribes in conflict over access to and use of land. "Use of" as in clear cutting, strip mining or chemically polluting. This particular report is a tad more gruesome than most of them. Only three hunters who were away when the village was bombed and sniped from a helicopter survived.
"This is another appalling tragedy Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0