Environmentalists Murdered

[Gustoo]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...medium=custom7

Discuss how people trying not to have lands ravaged are murdered.

[Jibartik]

Well you know my theory..

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well you know my theory..

They used to spike trees up here, I won't say my theory. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ooloo]

Sure, you can be the first one in line to live without electricity or gasoline. Go right ahead.

But seriously I obviously condemn the murder of anybody, I'm a tad skeptical of the premise of this article though. Are "environmental activists" like registered, card carrying members? Maybe these murders had nothing to do with their activism. I mean it says "almost a third" were linked to their activism, which means the majority of them weren't. So it's kind of misleading. Most apparently got murdered for some unrelated reason.

It's sad and I fully condemn the murderers, but the article itself seems a tad manipulative.

Modern environmentalism tends to trend more and more toward a cultish anti-human attitude, especially when people talk about how there's "too many people". Nobody wants to include themselves in the set of people who are too many, it's always somebody ELSE that needs to go. I'm all for green energy, but it's not a magic solution. Green energy requires deforestation, pollution, and burning fossil fuels to ever get off the ground. The Greta Thunbergs of the world are painfully ignorant of what allows them to live the cushy lives that they live.

[Trexller]

Natural Resource profiteers tryin to make activists quiet?

[Swish]

Life is cheap in South Africa.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Life is cheap in South Africa.

Have African ancestry and cousins from the family stories the parts of the continent I have had connections to, including SA, sound like they suck. Even when people trying to explain how amazing these places are.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have African ancestry and cousins from the family stories the parts of the continent I have had connections to, including SA, sound like they suck. Even when people trying to explain how amazing these places are.

I've encountered a decent amount of I'm assuming South African (maybe some other part of Africa, I can't distinguish where from the accent) black people in my job

Always very polite, incredible hard workers, who can take a lot of abuse (in my field they seem to frequently end up working in group homes that other people may not want to, such as homes for adults with developmental delays or other medical cognitive problems and sometimes a history of aggression). They are (usually rarely) getting hit by their residents sometimes, still keeping a perfectly cool head and remaining professional and polite to the resident and everyone else throughout. I have nothing but completely positive experiences every time I've encountered them at work

[Jibartik]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Murrell

[pink grapefruit]

The end of the world promises to be very stupid!