Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
Earth First! 26, no. 1 features reports about climate change and climate justice, looks into the future of civilization, and fights for the rights of animals.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Amazon Watch reports news about protecting the Ecuadorian forest, and Lena Ag gives 34 reasons to consider George W. Bush an eco-terrorist.
This issue of Earth First! Journal features various stories about the actions to defend Adnyamathanha territory in Australia, the protest against genetic engineering, and the fight against industrial agriculture in Brazil. In addition, Felix Tuodolo tells the story of how Nigerian military opened fire on youths after Shell’s oil spill.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Patrick Reinsborough tells the story of the U’wa (“the thinking people”) and their long fight against Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum’s (Oxy) effort to drill on their land in Colombia. In addition, Mariposa discusses civil disobedience and how being arrested can lead to empowerment, and Howie Wolke calls for attention to saving the Sapphire roadless area in Western Montana.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Allisone Lunn discusses spirituality and various theories used within the Earth First! movement, Nick Jukes puts focus on Shell’s political influence in Nigeria, and Julia Butterfly Hill speaks about her efforts to save the Headwaters Forest.
This film follows Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s plan to avoid exploiting its Amazonian oil fields and convince industrialized countries to help fund this initiative.
In January 1990, four oil spills occured in New York’s Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull waterways, popularizing the heavily traversed channel.
On 3 June 1979 the Ixtoc I oil rig exploded in the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, and a continuous flow of oil released into the marine environment for nine months. Oil pollution reached coastlines and beaches, and damaged local shrimp populations.
