“They exist at the edge of human #life in an #environment that is treated like a #toxic dumping ground by foreign #mining #companies. Millions of #trees have been #clearcut, dozens of villages razed, rivers and air #polluted, and #arable land destroyed. Our daily #lives are powered by a #human and #environmental #catastrophe in the #Congo.”

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Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cobalt-red/id1624502755
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#greencolonialism #lumumba #KleptocraticState

#Modern #KleptocraticState inventing #ClimateChange for #WallStreet: "This is us fighting for our life... Sadly, the #state should be the one fighting for our #livelihoods, our #lives, but in Honduras, we're #criminalized and #condemned for #defending something that is ours being destroyed," said Juana Zúniga, community leader and life partner of José Abelino Cedillo, one of the #Guapinol8.

"To not fight is to be complicit in the #corruption," she said.

https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/justice/we-cannot-exist-if-we-lose-water-honduras-community-resists-mine-polluting-r-o

#waterislife #DegradedSpaces #CarbonSinks#SaveForests #SaveRivers #KeelingCurve