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Life On Earth Is Dying! What Will You Do?

December 23, 2016 By Robert J. Burrowes 2 Comments

On the day that you read this article, 200 species of life on Earth (plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects, reptiles) will cease to exist. Tomorrow, another 200 species will vanish forever.

The human onslaught to destroy life on Earth is unprecedented in Earth’s history. Planet Earth is now experiencing its sixth mass extinction event and Homo sapiens sapiens is the cause. Moreover, this mass extinction event is accelerating and is so comprehensive in its impact that the piecemeal measures being taken by the United Nations, international agencies and governments constitute a tokenism that is breathtaking in the extreme.

And it is no longer the case that mainly ‘invisible’ species are vanishing: those insects, amphibians and small animals about which you had never even heard, assuming they have been identified and given a name by humans.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Environment Tagged With: activism, Climate change, extinction, fossil fuels, nonviolence

Disappearing Land, Disappearing Forests, Disappearing Creatures

September 10, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Fracked Earth News gathers the top climate change and energy news including:

__Navajo Nation: “We have rights which are being violated.” The Bureau of Land Management can issue “new gas and oil drilling permits” around Chaco Canyon National Historical Park, a National Heritage Site. There’s also the proposed Pinon Pipeline.

__Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is again increasing, due to “cattle ranching aimed at the U.S. market.” Meanwhile, the Guarani-Kaiowa are under siege in Mato Grosso do Sul where they live confined in miserable conditions although their ancestral lands have been confirmed by the government. Farmers are fighting against the Guarani in the courts–and with live ammo back home.

__Canada’s Mienra IRL has halted Corihuarmi gold mine operations in Peru after protests by locals about damage to the environment and themselves—and those $10bn in profits foreign mining companies take out of Peru, leaving only 2% in taxes.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: Climate change, extinction, indigenous, mining, water

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: A Long Walk For The Climate

January 20, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

New Mexicio: Diné youth are so concerned about corporate exploitation of underground resources, including oil and uranium, that they have embarked on a prayer walk of 200 miles. This first walk honors “The Long Walk of the Diné People to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.” Other walks will follow this year.

Colombia: The underground Ocensa pipeline, carrying 650,000 barrels of crude/day between the huge Cusiana-Cupiagua oilfield to the Caribbean coast, built only about 15 years ago, has eroded campesinos’ farmland and led to severe loss of income. Campesinos sued BP in the UK seven years ago. The court case is nearing conclusion.

India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invest $100 billion in solar power and put solar plants “atop canals: efficient and cheap land use, and reduce water evaporation from the channels underneath.” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is quite impressed.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Allan Adam, Argentina, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Ban Ki-Moon, BP Oil, Canada, canals, capitalism, China, climate, Climate change, coal, Colombia, Colorado, Congress, Crow Creek Sioux, Davos, Democratic Party, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, diesel fuel, Diné, Earl Ray Tomblin, education, electric automobiles, electric cars, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, extinction, first Nations, fracking, global warming, Green Party, Greg Grey Cloud, Guatemala, hydraulic fracturing, India, indigenous, inequality, iron, John Hofmeister, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, land use, liquid nitrogen gas, LNG, Louisiana, Macondo, Mapuche, methane plume, Mexico, mining, Mitch McConnell, Montana, NAFTA, Narendra Modi, NASA, Native Americans, Nebraska, New Mexico, ocean, oceans, offshore wind, oil, oil prices, OPEC, Patagonia, petroleum, pipelines, Pope Francis, renewable energy, Republican Party, Russia, Schlumberger Ltd, science education, Senate, Sioux, solar, solar energy, Somalia, sustainable energy, Terrajoule, Texas, Turkey, UK, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States Department of Commerce, United States Department of the Interior, United States Senate, uranium, US State Department, Vatican, water, West Virginia, wind, World Economic Forum, Yellowstone River

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