Paraphrased:
Illegal fishing is happening off the coast of Somalia. Fishing boats from France, Spain, Greece, UK, Norway, Russia, Taiwan - it's a free-for-all. And those countries' navies and warships are there, protecting their own illegal fishing vessels. A tremendous injustice.
Toxic dumping, industrial waste dumping, nuclear dumping has also been going on for the last 30 years. To avoid strict environmental rules in their own countries, where else to take it, but to countries in conflict or weak countries who could not prevent them or who could be bought.
When the marine resources of Somalia were pillaged, when the waters were poisoned, when the fish was stolen, and in a poverty situation in the whole country, the fishermen felt that they had no other possibilities or other recourse but to fight the properties and the shipping of the same countries that have been carrying on the fishing piracy and toxic dumping.
Mohamed Abshir Waldo, interviewed by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/14/analysis_somalia_piracy_began_in_response
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Nature as property
Quote:
Our environmental movement has always been based on nature as property. In other words, owning ten acres of ground in the United States, carries with it the legal ability to destroy the ecosystems on that ten-acre piece of property. What is increasingly growing is a realization that for a real environmental movement to occur, ecosystems must have legally enforceable rights of their own.
Thirteen municipalities in the United States now have passed local laws that say that nature and ecosystems are no longer property, but actually have legally enforceable rights of their own. And Ecuador became the first country in the world to take that concept of moving to a rights-based environmental protection system and ensconce it into their national constitution. It’s now law.
Thomas Linzey, interview by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/21/envision_spokane_coalition_works_to_get
Our environmental movement has always been based on nature as property. In other words, owning ten acres of ground in the United States, carries with it the legal ability to destroy the ecosystems on that ten-acre piece of property. What is increasingly growing is a realization that for a real environmental movement to occur, ecosystems must have legally enforceable rights of their own.
Thirteen municipalities in the United States now have passed local laws that say that nature and ecosystems are no longer property, but actually have legally enforceable rights of their own. And Ecuador became the first country in the world to take that concept of moving to a rights-based environmental protection system and ensconce it into their national constitution. It’s now law.
Thomas Linzey, interview by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/21/envision_spokane_coalition_works_to_get
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