Eh compared to some other projects this is much milder. I mean there is a project that has been gaining strength that will explore oil right in the amazon basin and that will be a disaster if even a drop of oil spills.
Also upon the completion of the Chancay there is the possibility of trucks doing the same trajectory but with more pollution.
Exactly. He will keep doing whatever he wants until he gets arrested or impeached, two things that are super hard to happen. He is in this moment very much above the law.
At least it is good that now we have some more concrete proof of what these organizations have been doing for decades and never really stopped doing.
The things is that we arriving at a limit on population growth under the current methods of production. There is a limit on how much cattle, chicken, pigs, etc we can actually raise. Now, if the whole world turned vegetarian, we probably could have much more people on earth. So much land is used to make livestock feed that could instead be used to grown actual food.
Thanks for the list ! Will add to my reading list.
In my personal experience it really depend on what you are trying to build but most of the time it ends in the party/collective/space expelling the person from it. What can make this process less dramatic and damaging is the organizational culture you have in the space or the party. For example, in the organization that i´m part of when we reunite, all men are required to help in some domestic(cleaning, cooking or preparing the room for the meeting) and organizing(taking notes on the meeting/discussion, being the mediator of the meeting/discussion[1] and so on) task because we have perceived that this is a way to make the woman in the organization participate more actively in the discussions and we as an organization want them to participate more on these discussions. So we have a culture of doing that and for some time it has been a self-reinforcing thing. So if i stopped doing it, my comrades would call my attention to it and if i really took a stand against it, i would probably be kicked out of the organization. My hypothetical exit would galvanize no one because we have been doing this specific thing for a long time and everybody agrees that we should keep doing it.
In short: I don´t have a definitive answer but a good guess would be organizational culture. We, humans are very social species and take a lot of cues from the people around us and if we are able to create a good organizational culture in a space/party/collective people will mostly follow it. That said,it is hard to create a good organizational culture, people in the org or the space really need to want to make it happen but once it is create it is easier(or less harder) to keep.
[1] Counting and signaling the time that one has to speak, keeping the meeting on track, etc.
I second this opinion, the friend above me said it all.
Invest, live, and if you end up with a surplus of wealth, share it with those who need it, fund liberatory projects (mutual aid, bail funds, etc), and don’t get caught in the consumption cycle.
Oh i agree with you, though i must say that trade with China will increase as long as the State of China keep buying commodities because the agribusiness sector has captured the Brazilian State and has been able to get massive funding for their activities. They have the majority of the congress. Like 2/3 of all politicians in Brasília are linked to agribusiness industry.