Murders against environmentalists escalating world-wide - Polidicks

[QUOTE][I]Competition for access to natural resources is intensifying as the global population grows and consumer waste forces up demand. This has placed enormous pressure on the world's forests and other natural areas. A battle has broken out between conservationists and corporations with competing interests. [/I] [I]Rights group Global Witness has been monitoring the violence and in a new report, they reveal that nearly a thousand people have been killed in the past decade. Oliver Courtney, a senior campaigner with Global Witness, discussed his findings with DW.[/I] [I]DW: W[/I][I]here are we seeing an increase in violence?[/I] Oliver Courtney: This is a global problem. But Latin America and Asia Pacific are two regions particularly hard hit by this problem. [/QUOTE] Source: [URL]http://www.dw.de/global-witness-environmentalist-murders-escalating-worldwide/a-17567581[/URL]

I have a feeling environmental terrorism will become much more of a thing in the coming years.

[QUOTE=VOSK;44604433]I have a feeling environmental terrorism will become much more of a thing in the coming years.[/QUOTE] It's been speculated in military fiction for years.

Tropico makes me want to kill environmentalists too

Sustainability major here, plz don't murder me

sorry brah I'm a mean entrepreneur and finance student. gonna have to kill you for your environmental land

1,000 Deaths over a decade doesn't sound so bad. Just some people are really willing to kill and die for what they believe in.. Rather it be saving the trees or saving the animals. Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.

[QUOTE=VOSK;44604433]I have a feeling environmental terrorism will become much more of a thing in the coming years.[/QUOTE] Environmental terrorism in a nutshell: "yeaaaa man we'll totally stick it to the man, man. What we gotta do is throw a music festival! That way we can gather and share ideas and stick it to the man with a jam fest"

[QUOTE=Araknid;44605216]Tropico makes me want to kill environmentalists too[/QUOTE] Eh. Tropico didn't really provide many answers to the problem. Didn't so much mind environmentalists, but usually ended up ignoring or, in the Tropico 3 expansion, outright banning the religious faction. Led to some interesting games where I did it on a heavy-religious scenario with a happiness win condition. Had to raise up a military to snuff out the 50 or so rebels.

[QUOTE=Phi7788;44605442]Environmental terrorism in a nutshell: "yeaaaa man we'll totally stick it to the man, man. What we gotta do is throw a music festival! That way we can gather and share ideas and stick it to the man with a jam fest"[/QUOTE] I was thinking more along the lines of fire bombing hummer and animal research labs but...

[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;44605395]Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.[/QUOTE] yeah that must be why temperatures have risen globally, multiple species have been driven to extinction, poachers are a huge threat to the welfare of numerous endangered animals, and environmentalism is literally getting more and more relevant by the day. thanks mr noobie i can really see how you earned that ecology PhD!

[QUOTE=ewitwins;44605272]Sustainability major here, plz don't murder me[/QUOTE] Ecologist here, I feel your pain.

[QUOTE=Phi7788;44605442]Environmental terrorism in a nutshell: "yeaaaa man we'll totally stick it to the man, man. What we gotta do is throw a music festival! That way we can gather and share ideas and stick it to the man with a jam fest"[/QUOTE] Because music festivals are the same as releasing infected test animals to fuck people over, right, dude? I mean, Pink Floyd? Nah, they weren't a band, they waged a campaign of terror upon the world for 20 years. The Beatles? Shit, more like The Skeletors with how evil [B]THOSE[/B] environmental terrorists were.

[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;44605395]1,000 Deaths over a decade doesn't sound so bad. Just some people are really willing to kill and die for what they believe in.. Rather it be saving the trees or saving the animals. Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.[/QUOTE] Yeah, 2 deaths a week totally doesn't sound bad.

[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;44605395]Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.[/QUOTE] Wait is Mother Nature causing climate change? Where the hell is she? Shit we need to get the press and secret service on this, we have an international terrorist responsible for desertification, extreme weather, glacial collapse, decline of freshwater supplies, reduced crop yields, political instability, and economic calamity. Where is the bitch hiding? We have to find her and arrest her for such heinous crimes.

[QUOTE=Phi7788;44605442]Environmental terrorism in a nutshell: "yeaaaa man we'll totally stick it to the man, man. What we gotta do is throw a music festival! That way we can gather and share ideas and stick it to the man with a jam fest"[/QUOTE] Because arson and nail-bombing animal testing facilities are totally the same as a music festival.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;44605272]Sustainability major here, plz don't murder me[/QUOTE] I've heard you haven't made it in an environmental science until you've received your first death threat.

Its violence against the enviromentalists, I dont know what you guys are on about "One of the more shocking cases is from Brazil where prominent activists, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, were shot by masked gunmen in an ambush near the reserve where they'd been producing nuts and natural oils for the past 24 years. They had been protesting against the expansion of logging operations in the reserve where they lived and in the Amazon. Jose Claudio had one of his ears ripped off by the killers as proof of his execution."

[QUOTE=OvB;44605851]I've heard you haven't made it in an environmental science until you've received your first death threat.[/QUOTE] You have to staple them to do your door and stick them to your resume. they are practically your credentials.

[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;44605395]1,000 Deaths over a decade doesn't sound so bad. Just some people are really willing to kill and die for what they believe in.. Rather it be saving the trees or saving the animals. Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.[/QUOTE] except we as a species are now advanced enough to have the capability to really [I]really[/I] screw with our surrounding environment imagine if everyone had the same attitude as you when it came to CFC regulation; we'd have been totally buttdestroyed by UV radiation

[QUOTE=Araknid;44605216]Tropico makes me want to kill environmentalists too[/QUOTE] I actually kill them. Go down the list of environmentalists, have them all shot.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44605780]Wait is Mother Nature causing climate change? Where the hell is she? Shit we need to get the press and secret service on this, we have an international terrorist responsible for desertification, extreme weather, glacial collapse, decline of freshwater supplies, reduced crop yields, political instability, and economic calamity. Where is the bitch hiding? We have to find her and arrest her for such heinous crimes.[/QUOTE] I think what he meant was rather that we were endangering our own habitat and not nature as a whole, because life is tougher to completely eradicate than it may appear. Earth already went through several ecological crises which wiped out the majority of lifeforms, and every time the surviving species evolved and filled the ecological niches of the extinct ones. To think humans are capable of wiping out nature is incredibly conceited. What we actually risk is changing our environment so much that we are no longer fit to live in it, either through massive climate change, depletion of resources or species extinction. If that happens nature won't be "destroyed" or "damaged", which are entirely subjective terms. It will be different, just like nature now is different from what it was during the Jurassic.

[QUOTE=_Axel;44606338]I think what he meant was rather that we were endangering our own habitat and not nature as a whole, because life is tougher to completely eradicate than it may appear. Earth already went through several ecological crises which wiped out the majority of lifeforms, and every time the surviving species evolved and filled the ecological niches of the extinct ones. To think humans are capable of wiping out nature is incredibly conceited. What we actually risk is changing our environment so much that we are no longer fit to live in it, either through massive climate change, depletion of resources or species extinction. If that happens nature won't be "destroyed" or "damaged", which are entirely subjective terms. It will be different, just like nature now is different from what it was during the Jurassic.[/QUOTE] Considering humans are far less dependent on specific found sources and climates to survive, you can bet if we go extinct, it's going after almost everything else.

[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;44605395]Mother Nature fights for herself, she doesn't need people to fight for her.[/QUOTE] Nature is going to do just fine, but it's us humans who have the responsibility to keep it habitable for ourselves.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;44606609]Considering humans are far less dependent on specific found sources and climates to survive, you can bet if we go extinct, it's going after almost everything else.[/QUOTE] The key word being "almost". Some species are astonishingly resilient.

Cockroaches. They will never be killed by nukes.

I just finished reading Michael Chriton's "State of Fear" and now in one day it seems like I've encountered more news about environmentalism than I have in the entire year. Weird how that works...

[QUOTE=Riller;44606116]I actually kill them. Go down the list of environmentalists, have them all shot.[/QUOTE] so you're the one doing this? im calling the cops

Remember kids, a healthy dose of dumping toxic chemicals in a river a day keeps getting knife-fucked away

This is murder AGAINST environmentalists yall. Aka people saying, 'Stop pulluting the environment' are being killed. Global warming is real and killing us, and assholes are fucking killing the miner's canaries letting us know that we are all gonna burn.