JH roots & routes

https://www.rootsroutes.org/what-we-do-1

on Terra Verde radio i heard pgm on how REDD etc not really green, so would help with

https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019951/forgetting-forest-trees

 Robert Heilmayr

study, published in Nature Sustainability, is the first paper to estimate the climate and ecological effects of subsidies in such schemes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0547-0#:~:text=Chile's%20forest%20subsidies%20probably%20decreased,biodiversity%20outcomes%20of%20reforestation%20policies.

https://www.ecowatch.com/ecuador-residents-palm-oil-2644430752.html

https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/

INVISIBLE HAND is a “paradigm shifting” documentary about the creation of ‘Rights of Nature.’ The defining battle of our times where nature, democracy and capitalism face off in rural America.

SHORT SYNOPSIS 

Produced by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, INVISIBLE HAND takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where ‘Rights of Nature’ becomes “capitalism’s one true opponent.”

In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist' in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and are now locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home through civil disobedience. The water they drink, the Rights to Nature laws they've passed are all on the line in this exclusive story.

In Toledo, Ohio an earth-shattering vote was passed to enact the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR), granting personhood to international waters.

Half a continent away in Standing Rock, North Dakota, the same industry threatening Grant Twp. is using militarized force against indigenous tribes and allies fighting to protect Mother Earth.

Activists leaving Standing Rock are rejoined on the Pennsylvania and New York border where the Seneca Nation of Indians aligns with communities in the Triple Divide to stop radioactive fracking waste from entering Ohi:yo’ waters. Terry Pegula, owner of Buffalo Bills and Sabres, threatens to sue INVISIBLE HAND filmmakers and whoever continues to speak out about his oil and gas company and their efforts.

The four, Grant Township, Lake Erie Bill of Rights, Defend Oh:yo’ and Standing Rock, are joined in an international fight to protect more than just water. They fight for their community, democracy, and for Nature as a living entity unto itself.

In the end, "Who will speak for Nature?"

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7/20

The undersigned: international — members of the Pacific Defense Academics and Intellectuals Group (GAIDEPAC), Processes of Black Communities, The Great Awá Family, Roots & Routes IC, the Collective of Critical Geography of Ecuador, Agroecological Collective of Ecuador, Other organizations here, and other academics, professionals, researchers, and individuals — who prioritize the well-being and rights of the Ecuadorian population, as well as the environmental sustainability of Ecuador, express to you our deep concern at the situation of the "Law for the strengthening and development of the production, marketing, extraction, export and industrialization of oil palm and its derivatives. "

On June 2, 2020, the National Assembly approved the aforementioned bill and was sent to the Presidency of the Republic for its analysis and decision of partial veto, total veto or approval. We respectfully write this letter to you asking you to carefully consider the important implications of the decision that you have before you, and that could have serious effects for all the people of Ecuador, and especially for Indigenous, Afro-descendant, ancestral, and peasant women and the Nature of Ecuador. Mr. President, the concern about the impacts that this law may have leads us to present the scientific information and the arguments that we detail below, so that you consider the total veto of the Oil Palm Law.

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