Chief Raoni crying when he learned that the President of Brazil approved the Belo Monte dam project on the Xingu indigenous lands. Belo Monte will be bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding nearly a million acres of rainforest & indigenous lands. 40,000 indigenous and local people will be forced off their native lands (as well as millions of unknown species & plants) in the name of “progress”.
Governments should have an ethical & moral standard instead of an educational requirement. The people we vote for should protect the oppressed not exploit them.
From Roots to Canopies: In the Healing Arms of the World’s Forests
John Muir once said, “The clearest way to the universe is through a forest wilderness.” It is quite fitting really, for the woods have, since the beginning of time, provided us with everything from food and clothing to clean air. Day in and day out, sometimes without our knowing it, we use something which has roots that can be traced back to a forest somewhere. Claims by indigenous tribes of the forests’ magic and connection to all life in the world don’t seem so far off when you think about it.
For all its influence in mankind’s existence, you could say that the forests are nature’s form of public service. One contribution, in particular, has shaped man’s way of life.
“Before I die they have to pay me for the dead animals, and for what they did to the river, and the water and the earth.” - Ecuadorian on Chevron’s crimes
Indigenous Ecuadorian Grandmother Humbles US Oil Giant
She has no legal training, and doesn’t speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home.
The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has been at the heart of the David-and-Goliath case, and spoke out after Chevron was slapped last week with a $9.5-billion fine, among the heaviest ever handed down for environmental damage.
A community triumphs over greedy polluting corporations. To read the rest of the article, click here or the link above.
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Her offense?
Persuaded B.C. government to protect 1.1 million hectares of the Great Bear Rainforest
Hell yes! :D A little bit of civil disobedience can help save the planet.
“When a tree falls, it takes other lives with it.”
