by Nnimmo | Jun 16, 2022 | Climate/Ecological Crimes, Environment, Food
There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spills capital of the world due to the regularity of oil spill incidents they experience. Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is...
by Nnimmo | Apr 13, 2022 | Alternatives, Culture, Environment
The wise is a knowledge holder and keeper. Learning is a lifelong process. In other words, we never graduate from the schools of life as long as we are still on planet earth. We learn to walk, to speak intelligibly and we learn to be part of our communities. Many...
by Nnimmo | Apr 6, 2022 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Governance, Militarism
The third report to emerge from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the span of eight months has again exposed the folly of humankind on its addiction to dirty energy sources. The report clearly shows that there must be significant reduction in the...
by Nnimmo | Mar 10, 2022 | Alternatives, Analysis, Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Environment, Food, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
It has often been said that one of the ways to colonize a people is by dismantling or subverting their culture. This pathway is also effective for building dependency and disrupting the systems that organically secures the health of the populations. In terms of...
by Nnimmo | Dec 10, 2021 | Analysis, Climate Change, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
THE 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 31 October to 13 November 2021 and had a loud, but uncertain achievement. No, this was not just about the Glasgow Climate Pact which...
by Nnimmo | Nov 6, 2021 | Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Poetry, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
12 years ago We were already in Injury Time Fighting for a temperature target of 1C Today Nature has been patient enough So patient not to call off the game Though the ball has left the pitch Nature has given humans a moment to think This is extra time in Injury...
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