[HN Gopher] One South African community stopped Shell oil in its...
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       One South African community stopped Shell oil in its tracks
        
       Author : botanical
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-05-03 03:34 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | bjelkeman-again wrote:
       | No supplier of products want to be linked with this type of
       | thing. Traceable back to the source. But I believe they is what
       | is needed to eventually manage to put pressure on the whole
       | supply chain to follow the law and improve how the law is
       | followed.
        
         | pyuser583 wrote:
         | How was the law not being followed?
        
       | loa_in_ wrote:
       | If political activism still has one fearing for one's life we
       | never got any far from the dark ages. We just have better tools.
        
       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | How much is this really grassroots with what the people living in
       | the area want, versus Western environmental groups empowering and
       | giving a platform to a voice they agree with.
       | 
       | Recall the hierarchy of needs. Most people in developing
       | countries really care more jobs and development more than in
       | preserving nature or tradition (see for example the path that
       | happened in the US and Europe where environmentalism really
       | didn't take off until the a certain level of development).
       | 
       | Same thing with endangered species. I bet most poor farmers in
       | areas with lots of elephants, hate the elephants that can destroy
       | their crops and easily kill more maim them. However, largely
       | Western environmental groups apply tremendous pressure to protect
       | the elephants, and elevate and give a platform to those who agree
       | with them, whether or not they actually represent the majority
       | view of the people actually living there.
        
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