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Dr. BIRUTÉ MARY GALDIKAS on Orangutan Refugees in Their Own Land /93

We are joined by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, a globally renowned anthropologist, conservationist, and orangutan researcher. She has been researching and working with wild and wild-born ex-captive orangutans for nearly half a century.

For The Forests, Multispecies Justice, More Than Human Kin, Globalization, Global SouthFor The WildOctober 18, 2018palm oil, Indonesia, Malaysia, endangered species, anthropologist, conservationist, orangutan researcher, wildlife conservation, species extinction, More-Than-Human-Kin, More Than Human Kin, birute Comments

NNIMMO BASSEY on Niger Delta as Sacrifice Zone /88

Our imaginary borders have tainted our relationship to fossil fuel complacence; global warming does not exist inside of borders, species extinction doesn’t follow state lines and blood is on all of our hands. As Nnimmo writes, “we thought it was oil, but it was blood.”

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Global South, GlobalizationFor The WildSeptember 13, 2018Nigeria, global petrol military complex, fossil fuel industry, Oilwatch, imaginary borders, species extinction, planetary cannibalism, plastics, fossil fuel addiction, resource colony, cliamte chaos, ExtractivismComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84

We meet with Zayaan Khan to discuss water scarcity in South Africa and a point of no return at which culture can change rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable —no showering! no laundry!— and they begin to ask, how could we have ever been so wasteful, so indulgent?

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Decolonization, Global SouthFor The WildJuly 12, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild iceComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83

With Zayaan, we trace the ways that the white colonization of South Africa not only destroyed the complexities of the human-to-land relationship, but also continues to ignore the intricacies and connectivity of the landscape and how South Africa is still living within the echo chamber of a shockingly repressive colonial system

Decolonization, Global South, Colonial Violence, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildJuly 5, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild ice Comment

VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women /26

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993.

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