#mining
Coal Mining Protest in Luetzerath
https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=Uxw_OR6Cczg
#Cops #defending #coalmine get #stuck-in-mud in #Luetzerath after #anti-coal #protest in #Germany.
Seeing the story of the heroism and honoring of the (actual)...
Canary in a Coal Mine
Reminded me of the great #Police Song on this subject, haven't heard in a long time. It's a lyric video now! :))
Photo: Canary Resuscitator
[ Museum Crush - https://museumcrush.org/this-device-was-used-to-resuscitate-canaries-in-coal-mines/ ]
#CanaryInACoalMine #Sting #ThePolice #ClassicRock #mining #music #music #musica
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
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
New evidence shows massive and rapid expansion of illicit rare earths #industry in #Myanmar – “#China has effectively offshored this toxic industry to Myanmar over the past few years, with terrible consequences for local #communities and the #environment”
- New satellite analysis from Global Witness reveals over 2,700 rare earth #mining sites in northern Myanmar by March 2022, covering an area the size of Singapore
- Myanmar now world’s biggest source of supply of heavy rare earths, used in #green #energy #technologies including electric vehicles and wind turbines, as well as smartphones and home electronics
- Illegal rare earth mines in northern Myanmar poisoning surrounding land and waterways, harming local communities, wildlife and environment
- Mines are funding military-linked militias that control industry with an iron fist and have threatened to shoot local community members if they refused to give up their land to make way for new mines
- Minerals illegally mined in Myanmar risk ending up in products of global brands including Tesla, Volkswagen and Siemens
Note: this is not an 'anti-China' post. Just a reminder that 'green' and 'smart' #technology has significant environmental and social consequences. #rareEarth #rareEarthMinerals
(Time)Stamping Out The #Competition in #Ethereum
Thus, a #miner who wishes to replace the last block on the #blockchain, can do so by #mining a new #block of its own which has a #timestamp which is low enough to increase the block’s mining difficulty. This can be useful, for example, in cases where this last block has high paying transactions, or in order to double-spend a transaction contained within the block. Another possibility is for an attacker to preemptively mine blocks with such false timestamps, in order to make sure they win in case of ties with other blocks which might be mined concurrently, or which might’ve been mined in the recent past but haven’t reached the attacker yet.
#scam #fail #software #attack #cybercrime #problem #money #finance #security #problem #news #bug #vulnerability
Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap
The Guardian
Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology. (...)
Such are the contrasts in this underreported part of the Amazon rainforest where magnificent natural beauty has become a backdrop to increasing violence and impunity. It is the setting for a battle over access to resources that has intensified following the election of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018.
Law enforcement officials say the Javari Valley, an area the size of Portugal and home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted Indigenous tribes, is now Brazil’s second largest drug trafficking route, where the interwoven illicit industries of fishing, logging and mining have proliferated over the past decade. (...)
With sweeping government cuts in the region – there has been no federal environmental agency [Ibama] base here since 2018 and just three, poorly resourced Indigenous protection agency [Funai] outposts – seizures have plummeted under the Bolsonaro administration, according to a report by Publica, a Brazilian investigative newsroom. According to internal Funai documents seen by the Guardian, the Funai outpost closest to where Pereira and Phillips were killed has come under fire seven times in the past two years. (...)
“Dom Phillips was not on an ‘adventure’. He was a war correspondent documenting a war.”
Saraiva argued that the Brazilian government has more than enough resources to end the crime surge here, citing his own experience combating illegal gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous territory by using the army to target illegal infrastructure such as boats and equipment.
“But they [the Bolsonaro administration] are not doing it for lack of political will.” (...)
Traffickers have also begun recruiting younger Indigenous men and boys into the drugs operations themselves, said Tamakuri. Drawn in by payments of a few hundred dollars for months of work, promises of clothing and mobile phones, the recruits then face execution if they try to escape. (...)
Tags: #brazil #brasil #brazilie #amazon #killings #dom_philips #bruno_pereira #chico_mendes #dorothy_stang #indigenous_people #mining #illegal_mining #logging #illegal_logging #cattle_farming #deforestation #rainforest #bolsonaro #jair_bolsonaro #marina_silva #impunity
Killing and outrage: little has changed in the Amazon after years of violence
The Guardian
(...) Before the world was outraged by the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira, it was aghast at the killings of Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang.
Mendes was a rubber tapper and unionist murdered by ranchers in 1988 in the southern Amazon; 73-year-old Stang was a US nun assassinated in 2005 for standing up to illegal loggers on the other side of the rainforest. (...)
But for those hoping the recent murder of Phillips and Pereira will mark a turning point for the Amazon – some combination, say, of greater environmental protections, more oversight or broader rights for Brazil’s Indigenous communities – the killings of Mendes and Stang do not offer very comforting lessons. (...)
“We don’t believe that anything changes because of these cases,” said [Ronilson Costa, national coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), a Catholic church organisation that monitors land conflicts]. “There is not less violence or fewer deaths and the numbers prove that.”
“The level of impunity is very high,” he added. “Areas such as Amazonia are always in conflict, there is something every week, whether it is a threat, an attack, a prison, and murder as well. I think the expansion and invasion of capital has generated more violence.”
According to CPT statistics, Stang was one of 39 people killed over land disputes in 2005. In the years since, more than 600 people have perished, an average of 38 each year. (...)
Only around 10 % of the cases recorded by the CPT come to trial and even then it often takes years of delays, appeals and retrials. (...)
Brazilian ecologist Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old American nun, were both shot dead. Composite: AFP/Getty images/Reuters.
Tags: #brazil #brasil #brazilie #amazon #killings #dom_philips #bruno_pereira #chico_mendes #dorothy_stang #indigenous_people #mining #illegal_mining #logging #illegal_logging #cattle_farming #deforestation #rainforest #bolsonaro #jair_bolsonaro #marina_silva #impunity
#Ethereum miners spent $15 billion on GPUs in the last two years
But now with its value tanking, many cryptoinvestors have found themselves unable to recoup the losses from spending so much money on GPUs and other parts. One such story, as outlined in the Bloomberg article, has one man who invested $30,000 in #cryptomining #hardware in mid-2021 but has only made about $5,000 so far through crypto.
That’s not even considering the environmental impact of all this mining, as the level of #carbon #emissions has always been a major #problem with cryptocurrencies. And it could be argued that between the waste of the GPUs purchased for #mining coupled with the environmental #damage, the value of Ethereum alone declining so steeply has made this all for nothing.
#news #environment #climate #crypto #cryptoCurrency #co2 #gpu #money #profit #crash #eth
