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Looking Beyond Entrepreneurial Illusions to End Africa’s Food Crisis

January 15, 2019Africa, Agriculture, Ecology, Economy Terry Leahy Over the last fifteen years, I have focussed my research on food security projects in the rural areas of Southern and Eastern Africa, in countries previously colonized…

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We Need Courage, Not Hope, To Face Climate Change

BY KATE MARVEL (@DRKATEMARVEL), CONTRIBUTING EDITOR As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right…

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Posted in Crime Environmental Rights Human Rights Justice Mining Pollution

Mining Rehabilitation in South Africa

The information disclosed by mining companies, about the costs of rehabilitation of the environmental damage that they cause, and about the money that they are obliged to set aside to fix it, is inconsistent, unclear, in some cases unreliable, and not comparable between companies.

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Seismic testing destroying South Africa’s sea life

Humpback whale beached at Amanzimtoti Beach

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Posted in Climate Action Climate Change Environmental Rights Justice Politics Renewable Energy

Calling time on fossil fuel subsidies

UN Environment is working with governments to collect internationally coherent data on fossil fuel subsidies that can help advance global efforts to address climate change. Gone are the days when you could fill up your…

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Posted in Ecology Land Renewable Energy

Solar vs Nuclear: The Tale of Two Energy Sources

Mike Jacobs, senior energy analyst, Climate & Energy Program | February 15, 2017, 1:02 pm EST Last year’s solar deployment numbers just came in, and they are, in a word, phenomenal. Utilities bought more new…

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Climate Eco-cide and Democratic Eco-Socialism in South Africa

By Vishwas Satgar The end of the human race is a very real prospect in the context of climate change and ultimately a heating world. Global warming at increases of 3, 4 or 5 degree…

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DeCoalanization protest – Thabametsi could add 9.9 Mega-tonnes CO2e per annum if DBSA funding is approved

Despite damning reports by independent environmental impact assessments and the lack of need for this project the Department of Energy have pushed ahead with applying for funding from the DBSA. Given that the DBSA themselves…

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OPINION | Going from a miner to a cabinet minister changed Gwede Mantashe

Opinion & Analysis / 27 November 2018, 3:53pm / EBRAHIM HARVEY I cannot believe Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe is the same man I first met when we were both in trade unions in the…

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“Every time we try, we get killed”: Confronting torture in the DRC

By Tracy DoigDecember 5, 2018 Original A new report documents widespread abuses by the Congolese government against ordinary citizens. Things may get worse as elections approach. In the last few years, there have been several…

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