Posted on 06/20/2016 12:01:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A London-based advocacy group said Monday it documented 185 killings of environmental activists around the world last year, nearly 60 percent more than in 2014 and the highest since it began collecting data dating back to 2002.
In a newly released report, Global Witness said Brazil topped the 16-country list with 50 environmental defenders slain in 2015, followed by the Philippines with 33 and Colombia with 26. The group says 116 were slain worldwide in 2014.
Last year “was the deadliest year on record for killings of land and environmental defenders — people struggling to protect their land, forests and rivers,” the report said. …
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Fixed it.
“...the deadliest year on record for killings of land and environmental defenders”
So if you are a land defender (whatever that is) you must also be an environMENTAList?
It all began when the leftists got smart and used semantics in order to advance their agendas. Remember when "rain forests" were nothing but jungles? You never hear or read the word jungle anymore..........And I absolutely refuse to use the term rain forest........
Balconies fault.
5.56mm
Yes, they are. Unfortunately for them, the depopulation of Mother Erf begins with them.
environmentalist = eco fascist
Assisted Suicide
Reminds me of a joke about a lot of lawyers drowning at sea or crashing in a plane. The punchline: It’s a good start.
Could somebody please go after Al Gore and Bill Nye?
It’s a good start.
Makes one wonder how they were killed. Were they breaking and entering, only to be shot and killed? Did they jump in front of a D9 Caterpillar and essentially commit suicide? The article is a bit vague on this.
Just redefine who is an “environmentalist”, and get the numbers you need to perpetrate a misleading narrative about victimhood.
Count every leftist rioter, looter or saboteur - even if they died at the hands of other leftists.
The point is to create support for restricting people from being able to fight back against their takings.
exactly. What the heck are they talking about. W's. Who are they. What did they die from? where did they die? How did they die?
This is like most of the regressive left's trash statistic.
So?
Lei Yang had a degree in environmental science and worked for the China Association of Circular Economy, an environmental organization with ties to the government.
He went to a brothels it was raided by police and died of a heart attack while in jail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lei_Yang
BTW - what is "Circular Economy?" new term for Keynesian Economics?
What are they dying of? Animals they are trying to protect or from land they are trying to protect?
Oh nooooo. Ha ha.
Sierra Club pukes pushing rewilding, agenda 21, stack and pack housing, mother earth knows best, and wolves and grizzlies for rural lands to chase off the humans there.
And end hunting by depleting the wild game with wolf killings.
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