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Fires, Missiles and Climate Change

by Nnimmo | Jan 9, 2020 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Militarism, Policy

These days no one can ignore the sad stories of Fires, Missiles and Climate Change. Watching a video of a cyclist offering water to a koala on highway in Australia, then helping it up a tree on the side of the highway was so touching. The animal turned around and...

Climate Change Cooked Africa (in 2019)

by Nnimmo | Jan 2, 2020 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy

2019 was a year of extreme weather events spread across the world. Sweltering heat hit much of the world. Raging wildfires were recorded in Brazil, Bolivia, Australia and the United States of America. Massive floods ravaged even cities like Venice, famed to be able to...

Walk Back from GM Beans

by Nnimmo | Dec 20, 2019 | Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

Nigerians are not ready for GM Beans or any GMO for that matter. The commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) beans has been celebrated by the purveyors and promoters of the artificial variety. The Pod Borer-Resistant Cowpea (PBR-Cowpea) also known as Vigna...

The Coming Green Colonialism

by Nnimmo | Dec 12, 2019 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Policy

We have entered the era of Nature-based colonialism. Call it the Green Colonialism. The gloves are coming off. The climate crisis in the world is being approached as a mere unfolding change, as business opportunities and not as an emergency that requires drastic...

We Cannot Feed on Myths

by Nnimmo | Nov 29, 2019 | Analysis, Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy

Myths don’t feed anyone. Small-scale farmers provide 80 percent of global food supply using a mere 25 percent of the resources in the food production sector. Industrial agriculture provides less than 20 percent of the global food supply using 75 percent of cultivated...

When Pain Speaks

by Nnimmo | Nov 22, 2019 | Alternatives, Analysis, Culture, Development alternatives, Environment, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

The colonisation of the Nature persists in its raw form and tends to be intensified as time goes by. The intensification of the colonisation of Nature increases as resources that humans have learned to transform for the preservation of current civilisations run out....
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