30/10/2012
By Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace Indonesia* — As a teenage boy is killed by a tiger forced out of its natural habitat by deforestation, we ask how serious must this get before KFC publicly cut ties with companies pulping rainforests.
A small child from a forest village in Indonesia – where as more rainforest is cleared, tigers stray into villages putting lives at risk. Photo: Greenpeace
Following huge public outcry, KFC recently announced the start of a process to examine where they get paper for items like napkins and chicken buckets.
But examination is not enough! Despite having months to reflect, they’ve still not announced zero tolerance on deforestation. And they still haven’t said whether they will cut ties with companies like Asia Pulp & Paper, who are pulping tiger habitat.
And while KFC dither the situation is becoming increasingly grave.
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30/10/2012
Johannesburg, by IRIN* – A new study set in East Africa, one of the most detailed yet to examine the links between conflict and climate change, calls for a more balanced view on the issue – beyond the widely hyped “climate wars” said to be erupting over dwindling natural resources. The study’s authors are among a chorus of emerging voices warning against viewing climate change exclusively through the lens of security.
**Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN. A changing climate’s influence is rather complex
The study, led by researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder in the US, shows that the risk of conflict in East Africa increases somewhat as the climate gets hotter and drops a bit with more rainfall, but concludes that “socioeconomic, political and geographic factors play a much more substantial role [in conflict] than climate change”.
It is well-established that climate change affects the availability of resources like water and food, but this fact has led to often alarmist stories and studies on the potential rise of conflicts over these resources, a tendency described as the “securitization” of climate change.
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30/10/2012
By WSWS*, 30 October 2012 – Recent months have seen one example after another of gains for parties advocating the creation of new, small states in Spain, Belgium, Italy, Scotland and elsewhere in Europe.
**Photo: Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, HQs of regional government: Credit: Mutari | Wikimedia Common
The growth in support for such tendencies has been fuelled by the savage cuts and austerity measures being imposed by central governments on the instructions of the troika—the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund—at the behest of the banks and global speculators.
But the exploitation of legitimate social grievances does not mean that the political beneficiaries represent the interests of the broad masses who are being exploited.
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