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The Green Transition ~ Part1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
https://www.upstreampodcast.org/greentransitionpt1
https://www.upstreampodcast.org/_files/ugd/c8d740_d092b20e72074cc59313ed1dc4030857.pdf
"This is what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes."
#upstream #podcast #audio #music #transcript #thegreentransition #part1 #green #capitalism #energy #consumption #environment #mining #lithium #copper #cobalt #economics #globalsouth #global #south #indigenous #communities #minerals #globalization #delladuncan #theariofrancos #jasonhickel #sergiochaparro #anajuliaaneise #maxajl #matthiasschmelzer #beaskaniillas #robertraymond
Russia uses criminal mobilization to exterminate indigenous groups
Russian forces have recently begun mass conscripting Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea.
#Genocide #RussiaUkraineWar #indigenous #IndigenousPeople #CrimeanTatars #Crimea #CrimesAgainstHumanity #StandWithUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #murder
DELIKADO
Defending paradise has never been so dangerous
#Palawan appears to be an idyllic tropical island. Its powder-white beaches and lush forests have made it one of Asia’s hottest new tourist destinations. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders and vigilantes trying to protect its spectacular natural resources, it is more akin to a battlefield.
DELIKADO follows Bobby, Tata and Nieves, three magnetic leaders of this network, as they risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.
It is a timely film emblematic of the struggles globally for land defenders as they are being killed in record numbers trying to save natural resources from being plundered by corporations and governments. As the world faces its sixth-mass extinction and the climate emergency worsens,
It is also a unique expose of President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs’ in the Philippines, which has claimed thousands of lives and the International Criminal Court of Justice has said may amount to a crime against humanity. DELIKADO shows the drug war is used as a tool for politicians to control the levers of economic and political power.
DELIKADO offers a story of courage and resilience to inspire others into action.
The battles being led by Bobby, Tata and Nieves in DELIKADO are the same as those being fought by local communities in #Brazil, #Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of #Congo and elsewhere around the world where #corporations and #governments are seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources.
They are being killed for trying to stop #mining, #agribusiness and #logging. Many of the deaths occur in remote villages or rainforests. The victims are often from indigenous communities and the killers are rarely caught. The powerful masterminds behind the murders virtually never. All these factors are in play in Palawan.
The film has a special relevance and urgency in highlighting the perilous fate of Palawan, the most biodiverse part of the Philippines and home to two UNESCO World Heritage-listed natural wonders.
Palawan, due to its remoteness, had long avoided the corrupt development seen around the rest of the Philippines over recent decades as the country’s population has boomed. Palawan’s rainforests are among the biggest, oldest and most diverse in Asia. They are home to thousands of animal and plant species.
But few people know it is on the path to environmental destruction. Politicians and businessmen are destroying Palawan at an unprecedented rate to extract its forests, minerals and fish. #Urbanisation and #tourism are other pressures leading to the depletion of Palawan’s natural resources.
Once the last of Palawan’s majestic #Apitong, #Kamagong, #Ipil and other endangered trees are cut down, these species will be forever lost. With the demise of these #forests will come the loss of Palawan’s incredibly diverse range of endemic animal species. Some of the world’s largest butterflies - bigger than an outspread human hand - can only be found in Palawan’s rainforests. They are also home to seven-foot monitor lizards, turquoise and violet-winged peacocks, giant grey bear cats, bulging-eyed geckos as long as an adult’s arm, flying squirrels and dirt-brown “horned” frogs.
Centuries-old #traditions and #customs for the tribal people still living in the forests will also disappear if the forests are destroyed. Other communities living in towns and villages outside of the forests will face floods and droughts when the forests are gone.
#Delikado #DelikadoFilm #documentary #film #nature #environment #activism #advocacy #Indigenous #Peoples #land-defenders #natural-resources #conservation #protection #preservation #Philippines #KarlMalakunas #ThoughtfulRobot #NarraviFilms #docu-films
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/reflectionawalkwithwater/586474087
Reflection
A Walk with Water
The conditions that make life possible are rapidly changing. Reckoning with this reality on the cusp of another dry season that may very well ravage his community, 30-year old filmmaker Emmett Brennan embarks on a remarkable journey to find stories of hope and healing. Emmett sets out to walk 200 miles next to the iconic but aging Los Angeles aqueduct, where he encounters ecological iconoclasts, #indigenous voices, and #permaculture designers who are challenging the status quo on how we use Earth’s most precious resource. The film delves into a profound and far reaching look at our relationship with water and offers a vision for how to radically redesign our lives around it.
Reflection: a walk with water takes a refreshing approach to confronting our current environmental and systematic troubles, showing how Los Angeles and other parts of California are bellwethers for change. The film features original music from multiple Grammy winner, Jacob Collier, who is Executive Music Producer of the film. With voices and stories that speak to today’s younger generations, Reflection is both a personal meditation on water as well as a practical road map for positive change.
#Reflection #ReflectionFilm #documentary #film #nature #environment #earth #resources #water #positive #change #hope #healing #iconoclasts #voices #stories #EmmettBrennan #CargoFilm #docu-films
Refugia
Our documentary series, Refugia, is available to stream worldwide via Waterbear https://join.waterbear.com/. Through a positive lens, Refugia’s founder, Liana Cornell, activates her inescapable urge to do more, and gains a deeper understanding of the current crises in nature, and the people devoted to preventing them.
From the perspective of the five elements present in every living thing – earth, air, fire, water, spirit – Refugia reveals the good work undertaken by unsung, everyday heroes. We also celebrate communities and companies dedicated to nurturing nature, and preserving these pockets of protection.
Cinematically stunning, bold, personal and evocative, Refugia illuminates their rewarding stories, and inspires us to realise that we are the solution. When we react with action, we unite in a compassionate, global collective, creating continuing, constructive change.
To do so is in our nature… and our nature is in us.
Refugia would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work. We would also like to pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
#Refugia #documentary #film #series #nature #people #aboriginal #Indigenous #Peoples #species #survival #collective #solutions #elders #firstnations #earthprotectors #LianaCornell #RefugiaPtyLtd #docu-films
There you go!
We made this film 7 years ago with Oren Ginzburg & David Mitchell but sadly the story is the same as ever.
When will people realize that forced development isn’t “progress”? Tribal peoples must be allowed to choose how they live. Stop stealing #Indigenous lands.
Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.
The government of #Ethiopia, which is one of the biggest recipients of American and British overseas aid, is forcibly resettling thousands of self-sufficient tribal people, including #Mursi, #Kwegu and #Bodi, leaving them with no land, cattle herds or livelihood. Unable to sustain themselves they say they are now just ‘waiting to die’. The Prime Minister justified this plan, in a country renowned for famine, by claiming it will give the tribes ‘a modern life’.
The beneficiaries of this ‘development’ are being arrested, beaten and raped. Their grain stores are being destroyed in an effort to force them to give up their lands and their ways of life. The result will be a humanitarian catastrophe.
Happy and Thriving
Tribal peoples living on their own lands generally thrive. Research shows that the world’s richest billionaires are no happier than the average #Maasai herder. However, many governments view tribal peoples’ self-sufficient ways of life as ‘backward’ and embarrassing, often coupled with a desire for the tribes’ lands. Tribal people are forced to comply with other people’s notions of ‘progress’ – usually by becoming settled farmers and having to join the mainstream market economy.
The #DongriaKondh from India grow over 100 crops and harvest almost 200 different wild foods, which provide them with year-round, rich nutrition even in times of drought. They have rejected attempts to be assimilated into the mainstream.
Forced to Change
Tribes, such as the #Penan of #Malaysian #Borneo, are pushed into alien settlements and told to practise ‘modern’ agriculture, despite having an encyclopaedic knowledge of their own environments, which have sustained them, and the biodiversity of their forests, for generations. They are moved to make way for giant dams. These moves are justified by the notion that a transition from hunting and gathering to farming is ‘progress’.
Devastating Consequences
Tribal peoples forced to abandon their traditional food growing, hunting and gathering practices lose their self-sufficiency and are left at the mercy of markets they do not understand and which often exploit them.
As in the There You Go film, tribes faced with this sort of ‘development’ go from independent, thriving communities – kings of their own land – to scraping a living at the very margins of society. Faced with these pressures, and the up-rooting of their ways of life, tribal societies often break down, leading to devastatingly high rates of addiction, suicide and chronic disease.
Land and Choice
This does not mean that tribal people don’t want change: like all peoples, they are constantly changing and evolving. But they must choose and control the direction of this change, not have it imposed upon them by outsiders. The most important factor, by far, for tribal peoples’ well-being is whether their land rights are respected. Once their land is secured they are in a strong position to make their own choices about their ways of life and what ‘development’ they want.
#ThereYouGo #short #documentary #film #animation #environment #capitalism #greed #profit #progress #exploitation #land-grabbing #tribal #peoples #OrenGinzburg #DavidMitchell #SurvivalInternational
Indigenous Sámi Win Landmark Case against Wind Power Company
In a landmark victory for Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled in October that the government should never have granted licenses for two wind farms recently constructed on traditional Sámi grazing lands. It found these licenses interfere with the Sámi’s right to cultural enjoyment, in violation of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
#environment #wind #power #farms #Indigenous #peoples #grazing #lands #civil-rights #human-rights #culture #Sámi #Norway #earthislandjournal
