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The #message from #Ecuador is clear: people will #vote to keep #oil in the ground
The #referendum result obliges the state oil company to dismantle operations – 12 drilling platforms and 225 wells that produce up to 57,000 barrels a day – in block 43 of the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) project, an area of the Amazon rainforest famed for its ecological diversity, and which is home to two tribes that live in voluntary isolation. With more than 5.4 million votes in favour of halting production and 3.7 million against, this is the most decisive democratic victory against the #fossil #fuel industry in Latin #America and, arguably, the #world.
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The message from Ecuador is clear: people will vote to keep oil in the ground
People were overwhelmingly in favour of stopping oil drilling in Yasuní national park. Can this success be replicated elsewhere in the world, asks the Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan WattsJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
One #question we have to ask ourselves more and more often in this high-tech #world is, is this real, AI-generated or just heavily photoshopped? And why is this stuff posted if it only triggers #depression among the #youth because of unattainable beauty ideals?