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“Catastrophic”, “very dangerous”, “every bit as bad” as expected and just plain “weird”. The reactions to the effect of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency on the environment and climate change were perhaps predictable. 
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An indigenous reserve in Brazil's Amazon region has been attacked in the latest incident of violence in the region. Farmers and loggers set fire to houses in the reserve located in the town of Manicore, in Amazonas state.
Via Jacqueline Keeler, pdeppisch
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Protected Areas are increasingly under assault across the globe. We have seen this in Turkey, in central Africa, in South America, and Southeast Asia. If these Protected Areas exist either only on paper (i.e. Paper Parks) or are so weakly enforced as to amount to no protection to the peoples and ecosystems purportedly being "protected," do we in fact have protection?
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The Obama administration on Wednesday announced that it has given final approval to two sizable solar projects on public lands near the Nevada-California border, which when operational are expected to provide a combined 550 megawatts of renewable energy, or enough to power about 170,000 homes and create 700 jobs. Via JAcK Digital Media
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Interesting framing: public land-producing fossil fuels or public land producing renewable energy.
JAcK Digital Media's curator insight,
February 27, 2014 11:31 AM
Huge Solar Farms On California’s Public Lands Could Power 170,000 Homes via @EcoWatch |
