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Indigenous Groups Propose
Protecting the Amazon
When news of unprecedented wildfires
in the Amazon grabbed headlines in late
August, most Americans were ill prepared
to understand the story, in part because
of systemic exclusion of indigenous voices
and viewpoints, highlighted in Project
Censored’s No. 3 story: the proposed cre
ation of an Amazonian protected zone
the size of Mexico,
presented to the
UN Conference on
Biodiversity in
November 2018.
The proposal,
which Jonathan
Watts, writing for The
Guardian, described as a 500-million-acre
“sanctuary for people, wildlife and cli
mate stability that would stretch across
borders from the Andes to the Atlantic,”
was advanced by an alliance of some 500
indigenous groups from nine countries
known as COICA—the Coordinator of the
Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon
Oil and Gas Industry Unleashing
120 Billion Tons of Carbon
Three months after the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change warned that we have just 12 years
to limit catastrophic climate change, Oil
Change International released a report that
went virtually ignored, warning that the
United States was headed in exactly the
wrong direction.
The report, “Drilling Towards Disaster,”
warned that rather than cutting down
carbon emissions, as required to avert
catastrophe, the
United States under
Donald Trump was
dramatically increas
ing fossil fuel produc
tion, with the U.S. on
target to account for
60% of increased car
bon emissions worldwide by 2030, expand
ing extraction at least four times more than
any other country.
References to the report “have been lim
ited to independent media outlets,” Project
Censored noted. “Corporate news outlets
have not reported on the report’s release or
its findings, including its prediction of 120
This space is the world’s
last great sanctuary
for biodiversity. It is there
because we are there.
Basin—who called it “a sacred corridor of
life and culture.”
“We have come from the forest and we
worry about what is happening,” declared
Tuntiak Katan, vice president of COICA,
quoted in The Guardian. “This space is the
world’s last great sanctuary for biodiver
sity. It is there because we are there. Other
places have been destroyed.”
The Guardian went on to note: “The orga
nization does not recognise national bound
aries, which were put in place by colonial
settlers and their descendants without the
consent of indigenous people who have lived
in the Amazon for millennia. Katan said the
group was willing to talk to anyone who was
ready to protect not just biodiversity but the
territorial rights of forest communities.”
In contrast, The Guardian explained,
“Colombia previously outlined a similar
triple-A (Andes, Amazon and Atlantic)
protection project that it planned to put
forward with the support of Ecuador at
next month’s climate talks. But the election
of new rightwing leaders in Colombia and
Brazil has thrown into doubt what would
have been a major contribution by South
American nations to reduce emissions.”
billion tons of new carbon pollution or its
five-point checklist to overhaul fossil fuel
production in the U.S.”
Modern Slavery in the U.S.
and Around the World
An estimated 403,000 people in the
United States were living in conditions of
“modern slavery” in 2016, according to the
2018 Global Slavery Index—about 1% of
the global total. The GSI defines “modern
slavery” broadly to include forced labor and
forced marriage.
Because forced marriage accounts for
15 million people, more than a third of the
global total, it’s not surprising that women
form a majority of the victims (71%).
The highest levels were found in North
Korea, where an estimated 2.6 million peo
ple—10% of the population—are victims of
modern slavery.
The GSI is produced by the Walk Free
Foundation, whose founder, Andrew
Forrest, called the U.S. figure “a truly stag
gering statistic, [which] is only possible
through a tolerance of exploitation.”
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