peru: environmental conflict and deaths

The political power of Peru´s indigenous peoples — estimated at around 45 percent of the country´s 28 million people — has come into conflict recently when “after months of peaceful protests by indigenous groups” against oil drilling in the Amazon (source: San Francisco Chronicle).  

Why must people die to protect the planet? Sigh.

 


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