The people rising for climate justice necessitates the struggle to dismantle corporate monopoly control over land and resources and give humanity a fighting chance to survive and reverse the climate crisis.
Forest biodiversity plays a huge role in disease control by promoting good microbiota that compete with the disease-causing pathogens, and flora and fauna that compete with or predate on virus-carrying species to keep their populations in check.
Multibillion-dollar global agricultural industries are behind the pandemic-producing factory farms.
Forests are the only systems we have that can suck carbon out of the atmosphere within the time frame necessary to save humanity.
As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in Southern Mindanao. “We must also demand for justice and…
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (November 11, 2011) — The government is moving to exempt corporate mining from total log ban policy, Leo Jasareno, director of Mines and Geosciences, said in a discussion about Philippine mining at the Minerals Industry Symposium held at Camp John Hay last Thursday. The exemption from total log ban…
By SARAH NEWMAN Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com The production of palm oil, the common ingredient in an astounding number of products, is causing deforestation, global warming emissions and a loss of biodiversity. The aisles of any American grocery store, whether it’s a big-box behemoth or a cramped urban bodega, are filled with enough packaged…