Posted on 09/13/2021 3:50:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group.
227 people were killed around the world in 2020, the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year, the report from Global Witness said.
Since the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2015, the organisation says on average four activists have been killed each week.
Logging was the industry linked to the most murders with 23 cases - with attacks in Brazil, Nicaragua, Peru and the Philippines.
Indigenous peoples, most often on the frontline of climate change, accounted for a further one third of cases. Colombia had the highest recorded attacks, with 65 people killed last year.
A senior campaigner for Global Witness, Chris Madden, called on governments to "get serious about protecting defenders." He said companies must start "putting people and planet before profit' or he warned that "both climate breakdown and the killings" would continue.
"This dataset is another stark reminder that fighting the climate crisis carries an unbearably heavy burden for some, who risk their lives to save the forests, rivers and biospheres that are essential to counteract unsustainable global warming. This must stop''.
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normal people are fed up with having global whatever and climate change shoved in their faces, and seeing normal commerce affected by un healthy business practices because of such interference ...
and just take 'em out on their own.
At least they are now (buried) with the Gaia that they so dearly loved.
The first thing that comes to my mind with the head line is less spikes in the trees to kill the loggers. A good thing.
Losing 227 environmental “Karens” may not be so bad after all.
We’re these murders carbon neutral?
It’s a start.
They missed that little bitch Greta Thunberg not to mention AOC and the rest of the American nut cases.
They need to step it up.
It reminds me of the picture of the activist idiot standing in front of the bulldozer. Until it made a slight speedbump with my her.
Yes. At times a picture is worth a thousand words. This is one.
The article says that “indigenous” people were involved. I wonder how many of the murderers were indigenous people. People don’t like outsiders coming into their communities and self-righteously ruining their economies.
I am not against protecting, and properly managing the environment. These woke chumps are not about that. I have a feeling, most are trained Marxists, whose goal is socialism/communism.
What a shame.
If a activist is murdered in the woods and none else is around to hear them scream....
It’s a start.😎
Well bless their hearts.
That’s 227 fewer people using fossil fuels, Mission Accomplished!
lol. You said was I was thinking...
It’s a good start.
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