While protesters against environmental destruction are being imprisoned, the real criminals who are laying waste to vast areas of the natural world and who are contributing to our collective ecocide via carbon dioxide emissions, suffer few consequences. Illegal logging and fishing are on the rise, as is the release of toxic waste on land and into the air and water. Trafficking in endangered species also continues with few repercussions. Read more here . To list just a few examples, in the UK, BP has been accused of dumping industrial waste from drilling into a marine protected zone in the Shetlands, without apparent penalty. In Australia, gas and oil company Woodside plans to do the same near Australia’s Ningaloo Reef, perhaps the only one that has not yet been terminally damaged by climate change, though this is currently being challenged in court. Also in Australia, Rio Tinto’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site J uukan Gorge has resulted in little mor...
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