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'Outrage
in the Rainforest'
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| Our unrelenting thirst for oil is affecting people's lives around the world. Oil production decimates societies and cultures whilst denuding vast tracts of forest and polluting air and water. In Ecuador, protest against construction of the International OCP oil pipeline and the consequent expansion of drilling into national parks and rain forests reached fever pitch in February when 3 citizens died in protests. Far removed from oil's realities, we hear nothing about what our way of life means to those forced to produce its key ingredient. Newspapers here quote oil company press releases, if they bother at all. There, in oil producing country, indigenous peoples know that "the planet is in pain." Here, in oil consuming country, we can't hear their muffled voices over the din of traffic. | |
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