Tagged with Ecocide

The good times were behind us and we did it to ourselves: no one was to blame. Even if culprits to this chaos could be identified, they were dead. The bullets and bunkers and bank holdings did not save them for long. These previous symbols of wealth proved totally worthless and non-negotiable for the one thing they couldn't buy from the hard-working, country-dwelling, "pagans": food. (more)

The most lucrative movie of all time depicts the genocidal plight of an indigenous race that gets in the way of a mining operation. But we don't have to look to sci-fi for examples of this -- up to 300,000 West Papua natives have been killed to put gold in the chips of the computer you're looking at now. (more)