23rd June 2016 - Ecologise

Development/Growth

It’s raining big cats on dogged, destructive development

23rd June 2016

Irfan Syed writes: After it finished reclaiming land from water and then claiming the air (high-rises), the city of Mumbai, being a financial, marketing, and glamour capital and therefore having ceaseless immigration, has been devouring land, like a super-starved T-Rex. After eating up most of legit land, it’s been turning its attention to… the forest….

A view of the Vizhinjam fishing harbour

Aneesh/Wikimapia

Conflict/Dispossession

How ‘development’ is set to create 2000 jobs, but destroy 50,000 livelihoods in Kerala

Job creation for Keralites from the controversial Adani-run Vizhinjam Port project is estimated at around 2,000. Compare that to 50,000 fisherfolk who’ll lose their livelihoods. Anjana Radhakrishnan takes a closer look at a project that already seems a social, ecological and economic disaster in the making, but has so far escaped the national media’s attention….

ALTERNATIVES

Why global capital fears ‘Brexit’

Helena Norberg-Hodge writes: Today, banks and corporations run Europe. For big corporations and financial institutions, diversity is an impediment, whereas monoculture – in all aspects of life, from seeds, fast food and clothing, to architecture – is ‘efficient’. For them, a single Europe-wide market of 500 million people was an essential step to further growth:…

Conflict/Dispossession

Report: More earth defenders were killed last year than ever before

The non-profit Global Witness has documented 185 killings across 16 countries of people defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries in 2015. It’s by far the highest annual death toll on record. Communities that take a stand are finding themselves in the firing line of companies’ private security, state forces and contract killers….

Archives for 23rd June 2016

It’s raining big cats on dogged, destructive development

How ‘development’ is set to create 2000 jobs, but destroy 50,000 livelihoods in Kerala

Why global capital fears ‘Brexit’

Report: More earth defenders were killed last year than ever before