Saturday, December 7, 2013

Pressing environmental news example for today:

In the island nation of Papua New Guinea, in the Indonesian archipelago, indigenous people and their tribal chiefs are fighting a giant palm oil company out of Malaysia called KLK - Kuala Lumpur Kepong, who has moved in to their land in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea, a pristine land and marine environment upon which the people depend on for their economic sustenance. The regional government has apparently given KLK a commercial lease on this land to raze down the trees and peat bogs, but the people and their tribal leaders have not been consulted. The international bank HSBC is funding KLK's palm oil ventures. Another example of how today's globalism is a modern-day version of the robber baron acts of previous centuries.