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12 Aug 2015

Environmental activists urge states to reclaim from corporate capture sovereignty over resources, food, soil

'Stemming the tide together: soil, not oil', 12 Aug 2015:…[A] handful of corporations and entities…operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted. Among them are oil companies that refuse to heed the call to address global warming…[or] present a path for action which includes destructive mechanisms…These ‘false solutions’ allow polluters to continue with their activities, marginalizing vulnerable people and poor communities…[and] destroying their lands and livelihoods…all for the purpose of securing access to oil and other finite resources…There are few places where oil extraction has been as destructive as in the Niger Delta…It has been estimated that, with rising global warming and shrinking water resources, violence in Africa may increase…Our call today is that we must recover our sovereignty over our political structures…resources…food systems and…lives. Soil, not oil. The soil is our life and our true wealth…