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The Environmental Justice Atlas documented 3,100 environmental conflicts worldwide as of April 2020 and emphasised that many more conflicts remained undocumented. [1]Gas flaring and oil spills in the Niger Delta contribute to local conflict.
In 2003, the Environmental Justice Foundation reported that in at least 11 countries people had been murdered for opposing shrimp farming and its associated environmental impacts. [ 4 ] According to Global Witness , the number of environmental killings worldwide reached 147 in 2012, and the total number of such murders between 2002 and 2013 ...
A list of the world's 100 most threatened species - a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi - was published. The first period emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol expired at the end of 2012. A second commitment period was agreed to at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. [1] [2]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political ...
A distinct field of conflict resolution called Environmental Conflict Resolution, focuses on developing collaborative methods for deescalating and resolving environmental conflicts. [29] As a field of practice, people working on conflict resolution focus on the collaboration, and consensus building among stakeholders. [ 29 ]
The authors of this study believe the mentioned agricultural crisis will begin to have an effect on the world after 2020 and will become critical after 2050. Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer claims that coming decades could see spiraling food prices without relief and massive starvation on a global level such as never experienced before. [97] [98]
workplace violence recession neil prescott But in late July, Neil Prescott's bosses at Pitney Bowes told him over the phone that he was being fired , he apparently was livid.
Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, September 29, 1957), 200+ people died and 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. [5] Windscale fire, United Kingdom, October 8, 1957. Fire ignites plutonium piles and ...