Where Protecting the Environment Gets You Killed
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2022
- Around the world, environmental activists are being murdered in growing numbers. They die for defending the land from multinational corporations and governments seeking to exploit natural resources for profit. One of the deadliest countries for environmentalists is Colombia -- a key front in the struggle against climate change.
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As we all know "Fear will keep you alive, whereas Courage & Bravery will get you killed"
As a Peruvian, I belive that this is very similar to our own situation were the government has no control over illegal mining and logging on the Amazon. Such a shame that money and power makes justice and decides the value for human life.
As a Brazilian I can confirm is the same for Brazil. The government in fact supports the illegal mining and logging.
@Inanna Banana How are you doing so if I may ask?
@Inanna Banana God created mother nature for us and all living things, it is our responsibility to take care of it, unless we realize this fact, we will also end up destroying ourselves.
That's why communism is a fairytale for adults. Instead of blaming man for evil, the capitalists become boogeymen.
Thank you vice for raising awareness on this horrible issue in my beautiful country 🇨🇴 I have hope that things will change, they have to.
BLSNGS
Haiti with you my brother
Raise awareness about how y’all are cowards. Hippy tactics don’t work when your being killed take a hint pal
Be like the group of Mexicans that took back their town from the cartels. You are fighting the banking cartels, that fund the corporate cartels. Find the ones behind it all and eliminate them, just like they are trying to eliminate you! The "foreigners" may think twice about threatening the locals, when you "fight fire with fire".
@@brendonaldson8056 Ok Mr. RUclips Commando
It’s unfortunately the same in Brazil (only this year we’ve had the cases of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, killed in the Amazon, and Adolfo Souza Duarte) 😔
May they rest in peace. 🙏
Thanks vice for make this visible for the world, is something terrible that this happened in my country 🇨🇴🇨🇴
Hope it gets better...I must say it's a beautiful country and such biodiversity should be protected at all cost❤️
As a Colombian this documentary truly breaks my heart, profits and so call development that for the most part only brings benefits to the 1% is often use to destroy Colombias incredible environment, the region has one of the most complex biodiversity ecosystems in the world yet it seems like it's undermine by legal and illegal interest. Colombia could truly be at the forefoot of eco tourism, biochemistry, pharmaceutical development, and sustainability if only the political and economical elites stop thinking shorterm.
Nothing of what you mention can be done without brand new infrastructure can't be constructed because there's no resource to make or environmentalist block it construction.
As soon as I read the title I knew you spoke of home. A sad truth caused by governments who never cared but for a few
VICE has taught me so much about life and its dynamics than school has.
Their factual stories are good but their political takes are hot garbage, they obviously lean left and it's painfully obvious which they don't admit.
Iv been living in Colombia for a few years now, and sadly this is all true.
Thank you for the great content, VICE News. Bringing awareness to our planet is a truly big mission. Much love and respect for those Colombians standing for their beautiful land.
Climete change? - well, the BIBLE dose speak about earthquakes on place never before seen. And the book of REVELATION: whole world shall be burned away.
So, dose climete change? - not really - it`s just getting more extreme. Why? - because the evil we do thorugh evil, we make GOD angry and now it`s time given to enjoy GOD`S anger towards us, wicked souls of humans, who are like thier father, the devil, and therefore are busy to Kill - DESTROIY AND STEAL.
Who and how many amongst us "wake up" from their slumber and see and hear and realize: WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
Without resources your privileged life would stop.
The fact that we get free documentaries on RUclips by VICE News is truly a gift 🤚🤚🤚
"We're still here.. We are not going anywhere." ~ Native Americans 🤔
May I ask if you care to know the fact that Native American people and their population in their motherland, Continent of America before European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while European population in their motherland, Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A sad truth.
@@dearsirormadam20 My jaw dropped as I learned Native Americans population (in their motherland Continent of America before European Colonizers arrived) was around 15 millions, while European population in their motherland Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! It is a sad truth. 😔
Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? Think about it.
All they need is their beloved motherland back, the lands that their ancestors' forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations.
Besides, indigenous Native Americans in Colonized lands of Anglo British, Spaniard and others are more of the same. Kill the indigenous Natives and whoever is left, marginalize them and create artificial poverty, once that poverty becomes crime and drinking, the media points to the poor and blames them to continue to stigmatize the 'other' community, scumbags, etc.
Amazing fact that Indigenous Natives had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for twenty thousand years. In other words, they actually are great and proud people.
Imagine what it would be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? The answer is they would still have their own beloved motherlands, plus their population comparable to that of the European population.
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes the West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 🤔
Moreover, this land is their one and only ASSET. The beloved motherland their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships of all sorts for so long. With their main ASSET was taken away from them, their IDENTITY, their DIGNITY, their POPULATION and most of all, their FUTURE are all but gone.That's a sad truth indeed.
All they, indigenous Native people need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors' forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for tens of thousands of years. 😔
Why not let Native Americans have Europe, since Europeans have had both North/South America Continents already; a fair deal?
Remember the saying,"You can't have your cake and eat it too" and "A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do".
@@dearsirormadam20 "We're still here.. We are not going anywhere." ~ Native Americans 🤔
"When they first arrived, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said to us: close your eyes and pray. So we closed our eyes and prayed. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land." ~ Native American Chief
@@dearsirormadam20 Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization are all evil things done by evildoers 😔
Europe for Native Europeans,
Africa for Native Africans,
America for Native Americans,
Asia-Pacific for Native Asians-Pacific islanders... Enough said.
I love vice news, I wanted to be a reporter for them when I was in high-school but when I got to college I decided I wanted to go into environmental sustainability. I’m really happy that they are covering environmental disparities. I would also be interested in a story about environmental racism in the United States. I trust vice to frame these issues in a way that will help spread awareness and action for these things.
Awareness. Yea been hearing that my whole life. Hippies dye because they are cowards who aren’t will to do a lot for real change
If you want to stand out from the rest you need to find obscure stories, the things you have mentioned have been covered by a lot of reporters. That’s what I think anyway, this is not a fact.
good luck
puffy fart
@@vnraosee9758 at least there are those who want to make a difference unlike bystanders sitting on their a**
Prayers for all the activist alive & that lost their lives to make a difference
The last breath of journalism
Once again the international content is just top notch.
Does anyone know which multinational companies are conducting the mining?
Take a good guess
Gold, oil and other natural resources for the most part
@@DrStrange234 idk I guess Exxon, shell HAHA
This is worthy of a full documentary. I hope you can invest more of your budget into doing so, and soon.
@tibeerius They are taking donations for their projects 🙏
Good reporting again Vice, these are issues that always need a light shined on them.
Our generation is fortunate to have Vice as a media outlet. GRACIAS!!
You can get killed for protecting the environment everywhere in the world, especially if your actions have negative consequences on someone else's profits, in particular corporations and the mafia/gangs. Colombia is just among the most obviously dangerous places. American corporations have also killed millions of people in the US and around the wolrd, but we don't talk about it often. And Colombia's situation is partially the fault of the USA.
We're not winning to the future, we're racing towards an extinction of the human race.
Can you provide me some examples of US corporations committing such acts of violence? I'm interested in the topic and need some starting points for research. Thanks!
@@tibeerius3656 well in the 1960's there was a food company called Monsanto the biggest production company with a dark secret, a Latin American country had bananas in separate farms by locals in the 40's to the 60's. This company made a coup against a president trying to end the ravaging of local hard working citizens and farmers a war broke out with the biggest money maker which is bananas and Monsanto was backed up by the C.I.A. using financial gains throwing everything in their book of war against a hard working political South American figure. They've accused him of propaganda of communism, then they've ordered a militia backed coup against the South American citizens by another who wants to take the presidential seat.
A protest broke out from a tyrannical company that was sucking the country dry of it's natural resources and it left the average hard working citizens pretty much in the brink of poverty when it comes to agricultural farming. This American food company had hired militia backed coups to end the citizens protest with bloodshed and the acting president was forcefully resigned by office by giving up against the world's most evil agencies in existence that has ravaged ordinary countries into to a dystopian wasteland of average citizens into poor conditioned people crying for help.
Just to show how evil big corporations can use a powerful agency against a country with plentiful of resources for financial gain, that's greed by the way it's very bad to the lower ranking citizens trying to put food on the table.
@@tibeerius3656 look up Standing Rock 2016, that happened in North Dakota and to Native American Water Protectors, trying to prevent an oil pipeline being installed, after Bismark declined to have the pipeline installed in their vicinity
They used tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, dogs, tasers and harassed community members and blocked Media (both professional and social media) from reporting what was happening
They recently imprisoned a significant Indigenous Water Rights and Conservationist for about 99 years
Under "t3rr0ristic acts"
See Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.
Defending the planet from those who profit from its destruction is very dangerous indeed
I used to see the green and yellow birds that would always migrate to a tree near my house in LA. I used to see them in droves every year and now there is hardly any of them. So sad.
They live in between Malibu and Santa Monica, atleast that’s where I saw a flock regularly around 6 months ago, apparently the flock grew from a pet shop escape, or a zoo. They’re pretty big up close
In Nicaragua this is sadly a ever growing problem with people moving into nature reserves to start ranches and look for gold, crazy how the government won’t then do anything about it
I wondered why ranches were not brought up in this.
Cuz the governments are all in on these atrocities.
“The government exists for economic advantage of private businesses”…There’s way too much of that in the USA as well…..Greed.
So sad, same situation in Mexico, protecting the environment can get you killed💔
Impressive, thanks for taking time to tell one of Colombia’s truths!!! 🔝👁👁🔝💪🇺🇸👊🏿🇨🇴
Same sit in the Philippines. You even get red-taagged or red baitted, accused of being communist.
Good for them.
They did nothing when the Fascist Kil the Communist, now no one protect them when they need protection.
"Well you ain't donе nothin' if you ain't been called a "red"
If you've marchеd or agitated, you're bound to hear it said
So you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead
Cause you ain't been doin' nothin' if you ain't been called a red"
I keep hearing "yellow weird parrot" and I like it so much better than *yellow eared parrot*.
Heavy Gratitude for sharing.
Vice is the best documentary film making media group in the world. Environmental crisis everywhere is leading to loss of livelihoods for many people, it's imperative to be told and retold until something changes.
Powerful moving. Blessings
GREAT CONTENT! Thank you for highlighting such an important issue.
It would be more than a taken of gratitude for me to serve at vice news! Please consider me as a volunteer for this work which is so desperately needed.
9:31 The way the trees are cut it almost looks like the outline of the state of New Hampshire.
Excelente! as usual. your reporting out of Colombia is some of the best.
you might also want to deliver one from the Philippines, wherein journalism here remains as one of the most deadliest job
Kudos VICE your work is unbeatable!
Anyone have any info on the port as of today?
it just makes me sad
God bless and long live the Colombians ❤
💖💋💋
Will latin america ever get over this type of issue?
Ask the US. I'm sure they can give you an answer0
@@dofrecitobochom7295 ask the cartels😂😂😂
God Bless Colombia 🇨🇴
I hope this matter receives a spotlight and may the corrupt face inevitable justice
russia will fall
Vice news is the best. I love you!
Colombia, siempre tan fuerte, rompiendonos el corazon.
Thanks Vice for being my woke media source.
Such a strong video to release on the day that I watched a election that again empowerd partys aligned with destructive economical intrests in the key states here in Brazil. We already have the most names on that list, and I am sad to say that this number will proabably not go down in the next years...
Im from NYC born and raised I use to deliver paper to vice news. Vice is Hands down the best news in the world in every category and level. They give you the point of view of every issue from from all sides. What journalism is suppose to look like 💯💯💯💯💯💯
NYC is full of nothing but crazy lefties
2:47 Philippines 😢
We need to protect these people we cannot rely on governments doing the right thing
I want to know who these companies are that are behind this. We can put pressure on them or their shareholders.
really good question... how do we answer this question? so much shady business.
Alejo !!! Excelente video !!!! Mucha suerte parcero !!!
That song made me cry.
I want to go to Colombia! To bad the flight would cost more from Australia than the time I would spend there.
Too
Worried about environmental activists getting murdered? I think the only solution for us as common people and consumers can be to have awareness about our practises and purchases. We should know where we are putting our money and who is it that we are all working for towards a dream of gradual planetary destruction. Is it our dream really? The big capitalist dream at the cost of clean air, healthier food and sustainable life
These evil souls destroying our planet will not have the last laugh. I’m sure of it. I hope their souls suffer for all eternity for what they’re doing to our planet
why is she acting so helpless being the VP of the country?
The corporate interests don’t want to be challenged.
why are the community members not armed to protect themselves? help them stand up to these militias
Oil palms become less productive as they get older and entire rain forests in many different countries are raised to the ground to plant oil palms. I am just imagining the port being built at Tribuga and all the biodiversity that would be wiped out.
But in the video they said it's not really about the oil palms it's about getting the land. So sounds like them getting less productive over time serves the interest of those planting them because they can use them to get the land to be retroactively included in the "legalized" land pool and then when it starts being less productive use that as the justification for why the land is being used for something else when that was just goal all along.
Seeing palm oil in all the packaged ramen noodles at the grocery store as well as punjabi snacks drives me mental because I know that so many youth are buying it because it's cheap sustenance and a go to. And it always will be. College students are going to buy it all up and there will always be huge demand. There needs to be change..
@@BeeLZBeeb how does that make it better based on your point of view?
@@RobertMcD make what better exactly?
What a weird, generalised statement and weirder response to a reply.
You brought age into it, no one else.
so the conservation needs better trained and equipped armed guards to look out for them copy that
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I wonder if this also happening in Peru
This makes me want to cry. God , please wrap this up and end the world
The problem could be solved in several steps:
1. Create new economic activities that do not need land usage so the demand of the land usage will drop.
2. Demand from global community to ask for a certificates of permission of goods production and heavily control production places (this will both prevent children labor, workers rights abuse and illegal land usage).
3. Stop trading with companies that violate previous paragraph.
4. In all end-products include information about all parties involved in production (traders, raw material suppliers etc.) so the end-buyer will be also responsible for sponsoring illegal activities.
Any human being should be bothered by this problem, not only Colombians. I want to preserve a beauty and diversity of our home Earth.
They're never gonna write the truth on the packages. We can't even get them to write down the names of food ingredients as the actual names. They use overly complex codes that are sure to kill most people's brain cells
@@beelzeburger5608 I don't know where you from but where do I live (Ukraine) all ingredients are written down and if goods are importer it should include information about importer company also, it is prescribed by the law. Demand from your government to impose those laws.
this reminds me of what the belgium did in africa, absolute inhuman treatment of the people.
Vice still dropping heat 👌🏾😌
Colombia is beautiful. They have the most species of birds in the world, the forests are lush and gorgeous.
Yeah, but for how much longer?
Guarantee you that these multinational companies come with support from foreign governments as well.
Wow this makes me real mad, so sad
It doesn’t really.
I knew it had to be in Africa or south America somewhere, guessed it before even pressing the video, smh. We all in this world have to do better to protect mothing mature and the animals.
14:40 seems like the guy is singing
I’m at the point of choosing the route through my upcoming degree in Environmental science. I now have two options, to choose the management route or the science route.
Things like what the lady said about politics being to protect companies and corporations, governments and their shady interests, rather than protect the environment, is why I’m thinking I’d prefer the science route.
Even before the video started, just by tbe title I knew it would be Colombia.
This is exactly like what the Peruvian Amazon has been going through for years. All these monsters commiting these atrocities will answer to God one day.
For sure
God Bless those who risk their lives for the most unspoken and unprotected members of our society
2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
Love these videos
I met a guy who is going to oil companies and reducing their carbon output from flared gas by up to 70%, best part is he is doing it with bitcoin miners... Reducing overall pollution by harvesting wasted energy, to use it for... making money! Wild. I imagine within the decade every major oil and gas company should be forced to implement this.
I have no idea what “flared gas” or “bitcoin miners”.
@@jimmock1155 Oil companies are forced to flare natural gas because it is too costly / inefficient to transport for use. This creates a massive carbon output. Flaring natural gas is basically just burning it into the atmosphere instead of using it... This is because it's stranded, there is no use for it and it's too far away from any company/consumer that could use it. To secure the bitcoin network "miners" use powerful computers, this requires energy. The miners use the energy which would normally just become pollution to power their computers, in the process both helping to reduce carbon output massively, while earning bitcoin (money).
@@ZedGames how do the miners collect and use the flared gas?
By green I mean environmentally beneficial*
Also if you are curious I found a video of a tour of one of these facilities... I can only imagine there will be many many more in the decades to come, even closed down wells are sometimes still leaking natural gas.
ruclips.net/video/-MagKdbx_NY/видео.html
rip Gonzalo Cardonas and all the conservationists 💔 the parrot is so beautiful. the Columbian forests look like paradise. i'm so sorry. i avoid palm oil products but that won't do much to help protect these precious ecosystems.
I like the song at enD
“Accidentally like a Martyr”
heal the inner newborn
Shame on the government, and a lot of admiration for those people who risk their lives to save the planet !
The planet is fine. We need resources for modern life.
@@thegreataynrand7210 i guess you’re American
@@Estelle.D893 yes and proud of it
Good
Thank you and respect for your invaluable work.
Please consider taking a look at the genocide in illegally colonised West Papua 🙏
If you want to teach yourself or your kid about how lucky they are to live in America - take them to South America. I went to Ecuador when I was 12 and I will tell you what, it changed my life and made me more appreciative.
Holy crap the Columbian Andes are mesmerising. It as a very strange beauty to it with the tall palms on the steep slopes- it feels like an alien landscape.
Eco-tourism might be shitty, but also might be a legit solution between deforestation and all out industrialization.
Huge dilema stay poor forever or destroy the environment.
Not really a dilema because only the rich will profit in the end. The poor stay poor and they also will loose their nature paradise and will live miserably...
@@philu8386 LOl that's the mentality that keeps this country poor. Japan got industrialized and the conserve their environment thanks to the profits of industrialization. 🤦♂
This reporter makes brill videos
The Gulf of Tribuga is an excellent case of when developers will argue, "well y'all just can't accept change"......well, to the developers? FU. YOUR idea of change will bulldoze every last tree, incinerate every last insect, murder every last indigenous person because we all can't accept change?
This rationale for such a huge land grab was attempted in Vermont. Insulted by the millionaire for creating so much "drama" over the grab, the people of Vermont didn't stand for it and he was forced to pull out and resell.
Poorer people in countries like Brazil and Colombia are just mowed down, aren't they?
This is happening all of South America main in the countries that have some part of the Amazon rainforest inside of it. I Peru there is no doubt in my mind the government could take care of these loggers and miners in a second but they don’t because it bring in billions of dollars and they don’t want to give people real jobs
And what can we do as citizens of the world? Consume less gold, meat and anything with palm oil, perhaps.
I need english captions lmao.
Omg
population ignorance is corporate bliss.
USA must pay attention to South American countries and help them protect their environment
Pink people taking everybody wit dem
00:24 The yellow wier pardit? 🤨