Kumi Naidoo on the Fight to Stop Construction of EACOP, Proposed Oil Pipeline in East Africa
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2023
- The proposed 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which would carry crude oil from Uganda south to neighboring Tanzania before being exported to refineries in the Netherlands, is facing continued resistance from climate activists around the world. Protesters disrupted the annual shareholder meeting of potential EACOP lender Standard Bank in Johannesburg Monday. Among them was our guest Kumi Naidoo, the former head of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International. Naidoo was forcibly removed from the building during the peaceful protest. “It’s extraction at its worst - it’s colonial,” Naidoo says of the pipeline. We speak to him about stemming climate change at its source by cutting off the flow of capital to carbon-polluting projects.
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These people who are funded to stop the development of African countries though!! 😢
Why protest against Standard Bank and not the energy companies themselves?
Ugandan president said they can only export crude after the local need has been satisfied. This news is incomplete. He also said that anybody that wants to exploit their resources must first satisfy the local need.
Hi Amy greetings to you and the All staffs for the good job.many thanks
Don’t be delusional. Africa will get as much of its wealth as much money Africa will invest in any project. You can’t invite someone to invest money into your country and expect them to give you all the profit.
So basically, just let the earth become uninhabital??? How will that work?
why are money addicted apes are always so angry?
@@whygohome172 money works today. I don’t like it as much as you do but that is reality.
@@whygohome172 Go tell Russia and other countries to stop producing oil,to with Earth
@@whygohome172 why dont the "firsth world" learn to do better than replant pine and let the others do whatever they want in their own land? Why does certain countrys think they own the earth? the amazon, the rivers? Are they the planets holly guardions?bullshit, the ultracapitalist and resources wasters, the garbage makers? is just ridiculous. The truth is, there is not such a thing as 100% susteaneable devolopment, like it or not, the empoverish nations wil do whatever it takes to rise up, and they will!
We do not go to Kumi Naidoo's home country, India, to stop whatever it is they are doing there. We do not need Kumi Naidoo, interfering in the business of African countries. There are enough problems to occupy Naidoo's life times 10x times over in his native India. Let him go home and solve them, and leave us Africans alone
Thank you Amy and Team DN ❤
That Indian man talking for African countries, yet other countries been and still producing oil
Yes END IT is africas oil not chinas
It's going to refineries in the Netherlands. You seem to lack reading comprehension or are someone who profits off of conflict and war (the lowest form of human being). Peace be with you.
yeah, is the wealth of the nations, not for US and EUROPE 🤮 will they ever repay what they stole for centuries in goods and people? I dont think so. So dont say what you dont compreend
There are things I like about this and also things I'm uncomfortable with. Extinction Rebellion was apparently doing what looks like effective activism in that pressuring corporate headquarters is much more useful than annoying working-class people on their way to work, even if annoying Big Business still isn't exactly leveraging Big Business. So, this part I'm okay with, but I still have reservations with the segment as a whole. Until there is the critical mass needed to leverage actual change, annoying politicians and Big Business is still probably the best strategy for these kinds of actions (better again than making the working-class late for their jobs, which does not help build the climate movement when it need to grow in numbers). However, much more focus needs to be on winning over different groups to form coalitions that are large enough to shut down economies via worker strikes, sit-ins, walk-outs, boycotts, stay-aways, lock-ins, and similar types of actions that will hurt both Big Business and the government in question more than they hurt the working class. Protests that block streets only prevent the working class from getting to work. Hurting the working class is the opposite of what activists' goals should be.
I'm honestly confused as to why the clip of John Kerry is included. I would say that Kerry's job of being "The Special Presidential Envoy on Climate" is to say that we need climate action but then NOT to do anything to make that happen because Big Business doesn't want there to be effective climate action because when all the shifts we need are accomplished, capitalist economic growth will contract, and that simply is NOT acceptable for Big Business. So, seriously, are we really to believe that Kerry is powerless to get effective policy anywhere but it isn't his fault? Are we to believe that the UK, Canada, the US, and German governments want effective climate policy but by accident, just have Draconian laws to arrest their climate activists? And yet at the same time, Kerry isn't getting anything done, as everyone knows? So, if the plan is to leave the planning to someone who is getting nothing done, then the plan obviously is to get nothing done, which is why we need a better plan.
Also interesting, and she isn't the only one, Greta Thunberg taps the idea that what is most at stake in the near future is several billion people d*ing in poor countries in the Global South while we presumably wait for John Kerry to get something done. This is why we need a better plan, and the US government has to stop arresting climate activists, that is if the US government is serious about climate action.
Of course, this better action is likely to include some solar and wind but it is delusional to think that we can keep the consumer capitalist economy we have now and just switch to solar and wind and EVs. We also have to reduce consumption and consume more wisely, which takes us back to Big Business not wanting the needed changes even if it means that several billion people in the poor countries in the Global South will die before the majority in wealthy countries wake up to the very badness of this overall plan of just saying we want climate change but then NOT enacting effective policy. We start with ending fossil fuel subsidies on the governmental level and on the personal level, we work on giving up the perks of consumer culture like pointless jet travel to say something one doesn't mean--hint I'm talking about Kerry but it is also bigger than Kerry.
I wouldn't worry about environmental activists not doing a good enough job for you. Arctic waters could likely lose all of their summer-end sea ice as early as 2030. The stronger SIA [Sea Ice Area] declines have advanced first ice-free years to around the 2030s-50s in all SSP scenarios. Importantly, the earlier occurrence of an ice-free Arctic in September becomes evident even in the SSP1-2.6 low emission scenario in all observations (circle marks in Fig. 4e). ...Results indicate that the first sea ice-free September will occur as early as the 2030s-2050s irrespective of emission scenarios. The Arctic could go ice-free in less than a decade: Even stringent emission limits will not preserve the end-of-summer ice on Arctic seas. Previous computer modeling studies have "significantly" underestimated the trend in sea ice decline in the region.
Correct on all points. The plan is endless growth on a finite planet for massive profits for the few, and to hell with the billions it will kill.
Very well said and spot-on, you should publish this comment far and wide in social media and wherever you can!
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 oh we will see an ice-free Arctic much sooner than 2030 or 2050,
@@J.M.-nb4gw sure but that is now the "official" line that confirms all previous models have "significantly" underestimated - and so logically we can deduce so too do these latest models. thanks
Every year, it'll get worse!
Thank you for the update on Africa
Uganda have the right to explore this wealth and export it. Why don't you speak to USA, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and all the gulf countries. Africa has started exploring and taking ownership of resources and all of the sudden its against climate change
My overall comment is that the underdeveloped countries that are exploited are in better geographical regions than those exploiting them so climate will punish those funding it first
Leave our crude oil alone west only to cry about Africans countries rising
we STILL NEED THE ENERGY FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL TO BUILD THE NON POLLUTING ENERGY STRUCTURES.
want
not need.
money addicted apes do nothing but lie.
...and destroy.
From Tanzania to Zambia import Gasoline. Why not build a refinery to satisfy regional demand before exportation?
Awesome video, please continue to cover EACOP and the fossil fuel industry.
No more fossil fuels⛽! 😢
Your device has materials made from fossil fuels. Don't be a hypocrite.
Yeh so people die. Your crazy
Thank you Amy and Kumi!
Why you don't say anything to soudia arabia , quatar lol
1:16 in the national park no less wtf?
Guy is worried about the wrong shht. Get $ for your Nation! The Lion's share, Not the small portion. Get the Fkn Money! *No corruption Allowed
Are the construction workers armed?
They pay them to destroy their own country so sad 😭😭😭😭
He is not even real African
preaching clean and thinking dirty
Fomer head of amnesty international....there you go.....lol...former state department operative..???..
Go Do the protests in Europe and let Africa develop
So how should you not change side? West Citizens must understand why we become Allies in their countries.
The ordasity .. Would another country come into america and pull from alaska for their country??
They need to build these and other oil pipelines to keep oil flowing at least 40 yrs on known quantity and consumption today Carbon isnt warming atmosphere. as moisture is
Come on Kumi. You drove to the venue of this interview, you use power from a coal fired plant where you are in South Africa, and you think you are justified in oppising an investment project in another part of Africa. Shame on you, bro!😊😊
The guy didn't comeback why?mmm! Sounds suspicious 😊
right across the migration path...
also
water's a shortage
make some water pipe lines!
Oil needs to go to south Africa they literally have rolling blackouts every day
Sounds ds exactly like Diary of an Economic hit man by perkins
It's not colonialism to ship all of the oil from Africa to Europe. The US does a lot of that too with various pipelines. And we don't like it when it's done here either.
America land and resources were stolen from people along with their culture for profit.
Instead of road they can build train, and the countries that are important in this project should just be owners of 60% of the goods coming, 20% can be for foreigners investors and the other 20% only for local ( national) entrepreneurs. Miss Greta and all those new ecological chief militants will be really preachers of Justice the day they speak about who really polluted and continues to pollute,say that those companies are those that should pay the price for the des Truro on they cause and they still causing all around the world. The they that they began to demonstrate s showing how wars are source of very big damage to Nature , that they they will be real defensora of Mother Nature. They should use their influence for the real god causes instead of their blá blá blá blá. They look like the new priestess of a religion….. Come on show that you are brave and be frontal in your fights , stop turning around the cup……
Develop to the level of food sufficiency first. The carbon problem is secondary.
Without water, when Canada is on fire and the rest of the world, you gotta prioritize... you can't grow food when your fields are on fire, when you have no water, when the earth is heating up.
There is enough water
@@coin9007 Food shortage is acute at the present time. Water supply is essential for the production of food.
@@KyleRuggles yeah so the water is up to the buttocks for the whites in the whiteland, and suddenly the carbon emission is a priority, when was they who'd burned the most of it for decades and decades...
Angy can you shut up for 3 minutes so we can hear the news?
Foreign Human Right Activist = Foreign Agents.
Che = Russian foreign agent.
Ridiculous.
xenophobia....the amerikkkan way.
Thanks, climate activists!
Out of touch environmentalism
I wish governments would actually give a shit about climate change.
Climate change is nonsense
Well, then we all should live like a Gypsies.... !!!!!! 😆
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
@@donHooligan
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Happens invest in police free family all African and bank peace Family All African brother and sister and Family All business ok thanks good Family all African Bank free family all happy brother and Sister Family All Bank first police free family all investment in police freedom. Okay thanks good
Can a project of this complexity, be completed correctly ? 🥺🤑 🤡👽☠️ 👍🙅🏽♂️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏻♂️
this is political
Apocalypse!
who cares cut the check! Lady
ya ya, just bring back the great Professor Cornell West.
My country of Canada is burning right now (massive forests fires, worst of all time) and and they say 2023 is going to break another heat record. We also have corporations who want to expand and invest in carbon bombs too for stolen mass profit going to a few people who bribe and control our governments. Climate change is a global threat the greedy oligarchs care more about money and short term profit. Climate change will kill millions, and only then when climate change genocide happens, will rich people start 'caring'.
I think that oil could probably be grown and harvested rather than mined and extracted too but oil corporations could not care less. They see it as when Climate change forces us into poverty their subsidized, mass panic, carbon bomb profits, are supposed to save us from that poverty. This resource extraction is manufactured poverty.
Let’s remind you people, taking these interest groups serious is a joke some of us will laugh at you for. The EU and US does not listen to these organizations like Greenpeace ot human right this and that and the ICC, those are reserved for foolish Africans who think politics is about morality not power. Lastly, what Jas happened in Africa is that East Africa, North Africa don’t not have interest in these Western organizations and never pay them any mind. The guy is a South African and their protest will happen in South Africa while the project continues and that we must laugh at.
I’m so SICK of jobs (read as, you get to stay alive) being the bait that allows RAMPANT CORPORATE GREED and ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER!
Propaganda by elite and comtrails.
I am not interested in anything Amy Goodman has to say.
that is obviously a lie.
you are here.
"him sad. brain broken." -Master(Blaster)
Bunch of nonsense
Greta Thunberg may be one of the most important humans of the 21st century, she is one of the most intelligent and thoughtful and enlightened young people on Earth 🌍
Propaganda by elites
Climate nonsense
Greta "Toon-bedy"?
from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"?
cap