Manu-Martan

An intelligent sobriety, which forces us to slow down and think about exactly what we are doing. A way to also get closer with biodiversity, our true essence.

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

La sobriété n’est plus une petite vertu éthique, elle devient une urgence qui nous concerne tous dans notre relation à la planète. https://t.co/R4Oq9oivvw

[Barbara Demeneix @BDemeneix]

Cocktail toxique – Comment les #perturbateursendocriniens empoisonnent notre cerveau (2017) @OdileJacob https://t.co/h34rUIPirT

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“Most of Earth’s near-surface permafrost could be gone by 2100, an international team of scientists has concluded after comparing current climate trends to the planet’s climate 3 million years ago.” https://t.co/OHyKPz9oH4

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win.  
Na região amazônica, que abriga cerca de metade dos 1,7 milhão de cidadãos indígenas do Brazil. Gran vitória historica dos direitos.

https://t.co/2vf8eYw2F1

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

La nature menacée devient menaçante : notre excès de contrôle nous a fait perdre le contrôle. Il va maintenant falloir vivre dans un monde fluctuant. Olivier Hamant
https://t.co/85yzMkS5Dy

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“Offsetting carbon emissions while continuing economic growth is an investor fairy tale and the biggest lie of the #GreenNewDeal. The entirety of human civilisation needs to contract. This is the only solution that actually obeys physics”
#ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

Les arbres à palabres en Afrique contiennent une grande importance symbolique, spirituelle, mythologique, médicinale, magique, commerciale, écologique et esthétique. https://t.co/O36NYUhwu4

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Ossoue Glacier
2000 | 2022

This is the largest glacier in the French Pyrenees and it has lost over the last two decades:
250 m length (11m/yr)
33 ha area (1.5ha/yr)
39 m thickness (1.8m/yr)
Source https://t.co/TIogZv7MWo (P. René)
@OssoueGlacier

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

La croissance urbaine en Afrique de l’Ouest constitue un changement important comme débouchés et diversifications pour les producteurs locaux permettant une moindre dépendance de l'extérieur. https://t.co/M47Vwvhr0L

[Graham Harvey @supercarbon]

Science now says more than half of all species on earth live in soil. So why do we pay fertilizer and pesticide companies to wage chemical warfare on them? They call it agriculture but it's really ecocide. Time to bring legal charges against firms making our planet unliveable

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

Revitalizing the bison with the spiritual customs and beliefs of the Shoshone and other Native Americans. https://t.co/n0hTPhvxTw

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“Throughout our evolution all we wanted was more comfort, more convenience, more love for ourselves. We hoarded it all, sharing none of it until, ironically, we lost it all to the monstrous progeny of our greed: the Thing which now runs this planet” #capitalism #economics

[Michaël Cailloux @MichaelCailloux]

Solstice ☀️

[Nyombi Morris @mnyomb1]

Chocolate firms from wealthier countries are exploiting farmers in Africa who produce the majority of the world's chocolate 🍫 .

Farmers in Ghana🇬🇭 and Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮 , which produce more than 60% of the world's cocoa, are imprisoned in abject poverty and get only 6% of the sector's income. Surviving on less than a dollar a day.

While indulgent chocolate corporations like Hershey, Lindt, and Nestlé revel in their exorbitant profits, a damning report by Oxfam International has revealed a distressing reality: up to 90% of cocoa growers in Ghana are now submerged in even deeper poverty than before the pandemic.

The report also reviewed, 90% of cocoa growers in Ghana do not make enough money to cover even their most basic necessities, such as food and shelter.

Meanwhile, the world's four largest chocolate companies—Nestle, Hershey, Lindt, and Mondelez—have collected a stunning $15 billion in profits since 2020.

According to astute analysts, predatory techniques reminiscent of colonialism still exist inside these supply chains.

Cocoa farmers frequently sell their prized beans to local collectives, who then sell them to dealers, who then supply them to chocolate behemoths primarily based in Europe and the United States.

However, these supply networks operate with remarkable inconsistency, consistently supporting the unquenchable avarice of the chocolate giants.

Recognizing the terrible situation, Ghana and the Ivory Coast developed the living income differential scheme to ensure that farmers receive a minimum price for their cocoa.

According to the survey, most Ghanaian farmers receive only 10% of this fair payment, which equates to $40 for a whole year of backbreaking labor.

Such heinous exploitation continues because the chocolate behemoths have fought the program tooth and nail, obtaining cocoa from alternate sources or outright refusing to pay.

#Chocolate #Nestle #Capitalism #Africa #Ghana #CoteDivoire #Child #Labor #Inequality

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“We have entered an age of scarcity which will affect every single aspect of human civilisation. Those hoarding food, water, energy or money will become prime targets of the wrath of an angry, hungry generation growing up on an uninhabitable planet” #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

[AaravSeth🇮🇳 @AaravSeth_]

March 25th 1973, #GauraDevi & 27 women of #ReniVillage, #Uttrakhand stopped contractors from chopping down their #forest.

Even when threatened with guns, they hugged the #trees & kept a night vigil till the men of the village returned.

50th anniversary of the #ChipkoMovement.

[Green is a mission @Greenisamissio1]

Night thoughts

Mostly, the value of nature is only recognized when it brings us relief and one is directly affected by it. However, nature does much more for humanity than some want to admit. 💚🌿🌲🌳🌱☘️🍀💚

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

Governments agreed to create a system whereby local farming and Indigenous communities would receive “benefits” from the genetic resources and traditional knowledge stewarded and conserved for millennia? Via} @CivilEats https://t.co/l2TPrwmW7O

[Australian Forests and Climate Alliance @AFCA_Forests]

When the chips are down Oz foresters and loggers can count on global partners to create false renewable energy carbon credit solutions that create a surge in #biomass demand with $m's of profits in energy credits.
#forestsarenotfuel #Biomass_CarbonCon
#BiodiversityOnFarms

[Lenah Sakai @LenahSakai]

MAIS DE 90% DE CRÉDITO DE CARBONO DA MAIOR CERTIFICADORA SÃO INÚTEIS - ACUSA THE GUARDIAN
As investigações indicam que o trabalho de compensação de carbono estariam prejudicando o aquecimento global.
https://t.co/SoNViXuaTu

[Manu-Martan @ManuMartan]

Soil produces subtle noises that could reveal how healthy a forest is. https://t.co/tkXvHbryMZ