Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The Philippines is the world's most deadly
place to defend the environment
It isn’t just forest fires that the authoritarian the populist government have caused in Brazil. They also seem to have created numbers
of murders of indigenous peoples and environmental activists, according to
environmental and human right organizations. In some cases, those who tried to
protect the environment or protest against deforestation are treated as criminals
or terrorists and attacked and killed.
And it’s not only Brazil but the Philippines
where an extreme leader is trying to convert substantial farmland and forest to
industrial plantations. As you can imagine, the incumbent president of the The Philippines created thousands of extrajudicial killings for his “War on Drugs.”
It is feared that industrial development might justify the killing of environmental
activists and protectionists once they are labeled as criminals or terrorists.
Enjoy reading the article and learn how
deadly it could be to defend the environment.
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