#WestPapua: #NeoColonialism is going on and on, it seems. Now the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, once more brought the #oppression of the West Papua people, the #destruction of #biosphere|s on the table, calling on the UN to help end the crimes, committed by international #corporations with support from the #Indonesian state (or is it the other way round?):
https://braveneweurope.com/ben-wray-western-corporations-and-states-are-complicit-in-west-papuas-human-and-environmental-catastrophe

#BP #Unilever #PalmOil #LandGrabbing #extractivism

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Ben Wray - Western corporations and states are complicit in West Papua's "human and environmental catastrophe" - Brave New Europe

A report from the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, which heard direct from West Papuans about the disastrous effects of Indonesian rule on their lives and land. Ben [...]

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Minimalist or maximalist? The life of a #microbe a mile underground
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-minimalist-maximalist-life-microbe-mile.html paper: https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.16543

Magdalena Osburn: "The deep subsurface #biosphere is enormous; it's just a vast amount of space... Many of the #microbes we found were either minimalist: ultra-streamlined with one job that it does very well alongside a close consortium of collaborators, or it can do a little bit of everything. These maximalists are ready for every resource that comes along."