Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction. The oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to be perhaps as much as 100,000 barrels a day, is part of our foolish death march. It is one more blow delivered by the corporate state, the trade of life for gold. But this time collapse, when it comes, will not be confined to the geography of a decayed civilization. It will be global. These deformed individuals lack the capacity for empathy. They are at once banal and dangerous. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications. The death they dispense, whether in the pollutants and carcinogens that have made cancer an epidemic, the dead zone rapidly being created in the Gulf of Mexico, the melting polar ice caps or the deaths last year of 45,000 Americans who could not afford proper medical care, is part of the cold and rational exchange of life for money.

The Coast Guard estimates 5000 barrels of crude oil a day, 210,000 gallons a day, are pouring out of a damaged British Petroleum (BP) well in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. Eleven people died in the explosion. The oil rig burned and sank. The exploratory well, which is 50 miles away from the coast, continues to powerfully disgorge oil from the bottom of the 5000 feet deep surface of the Gulf.

Nosotros miembros de la Junta Directiva de la Asociación de Desarrollo Integral Indígena del Territorio de Zapatón, reunidos hoy domingo 18 de abril de 2010 al ser las 16 horas, hacemos denuncia de los siguientes hechos delictivos.

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso y por medio de América Latina en Movimiento por Nicola Bullard Quizás sin entender plenamente el significado ni las implicaciones, los movimientos progresistas han gravitado en torno a la consigna de la “deuda climática” como un camino hacia el complejo mundo de las negociaciones sobre el clima. Es fácil entender por qué: [...]

• Group says project harmed crops, livestock and fish • Original assessment allegedly warned of risks by Diane Taylor November 11, 2009 Ninety-five Colombian farmers are suing the oil company BP in the high court in London for allegedly causing serious damage to their land, crops and animals. In the first case of its kind, the farmers are claiming that [...]

San José, 12 nov (EFE).- La Sala Constitucional escuchó hoy a los opositores y defensores de la mina de oro a cielo abierto de Crucitas cercana a la frontera con Nicaragua, en el marco del estudio de 12 recursos de amparo presentados por los posibles impactos ambientales del proyecto. Los magistrados escucharon a los recurrentes, entre [...]

You want the Amazon to survive? Then pay us not to pump the oil, says Ecuador. by Huw Hennessy in Quito October 31, 2009 The tropical rainforest in the eastern lowlands of Ecuador assaults the senses: the sunlight dazzles the eyes, the heat is so fierce that within seconds one’s clothes are soaked in sweat. Then there are [...]

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The US is one of the world’s leading garbage producers. Our unnecessary wastefulness is creating a deadly brew by Sadhbh Walshe October 2, 2009 There are some places in the world where there is no word for garbage. The idea that an object could have no purpose, or be brought into being only to be discarded, is so [...]

por Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canadá, 2 oct (IPS) – Alimentos exorbitantemente caros y millones más de hambrientos serán parte del oscuro futuro de la humanidad si no se toman acciones concertadas contra el cambio climático y se hacen más inversiones en agricultura, alertaron expertos esta semana. La devastadora sequía que padece en estos momentos África oriental, donde [...]