#plantations — Public Fediverse posts

Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money...

"Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.."

"...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb
#slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #PastoralIndustry #sugar #cotton #plantations #PALM #books

Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵

#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires

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Tout ce qui est planifié devra être réalisé dans une instabilité croissante.
Des budgets pillés par la dernière urgence, des services publics fonctionnant avec une confiance épuisée, la reconstruction ici en concurrence avec des chaînes d'approvisionnement ailleurs.
Les chercheurs appellent cela le risque de déraillement, et chaque plan devrait en tenir compte :
https://scri.org.uk/publications/report-derailment-risk
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#prospective #futurs #risques #risque #gestionDuRisque #gestionDesRisques #habitabilité #politiqueClimatique #adaptation #mégaFeux #incendies #plantations #foresterie #sécheresse #souverainetéAlimentaire #lutteContreLesIncendies #pompiers #UE #Europe

Blackbirding by Ryan Butta

* "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-deception. The term “blackbirding” (its etymology in the African and West Indies slave trades) involved the coercion and kidnapping of up to 62,000 Pacific Islander people, many children, to labour mostly on Australian sugar cane plantations between 1860 and 1906."

"Long portrayed as somehow “other” than slavery, Butta uses forensic archival work and compelling prose to disturbingly illustrate why this was Australia’s slave trade – and how a colonial who’s-who profited handsomely from it. – Paul Daley " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/05/best-books-to-read-australia-august-2026

* Book :"As Australia becomes more willing to confront the violence and trauma of its colonial past, one chapter has remained largely hidden: the Australian slave trade known as blackbirding." >>
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Blackbirding/Ryan-Butta/9781923135703
#slavery #history #EngineeredForgetting #OceanicPeoples #blackbirding #Australia #sugar #plantations #books #EuropeanColonisation #violence

Koala severely injured by logging action

"The koala was euthanised on welfare grounds the following day." >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/locals-distressed-by-koala-death-at-pine-creek-state-forest
#koalas #LoggingIndustry #plantations #NSW #MidnorthCoast #mortalities #FCNSW #PineCreek #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #CollateralHarm

#Thai #PM warns may ‘shut down’ #cannabis #industry after #global #smuggling spike
"German customs revealed they'd disrupted a #seacorridor smuggling Thai cannabis into #Europe, seizing 2 shipments totalling 1.2tons.. #Indonesian authorities announced te seizure of 3.37tons of cannabis buds fr #Thailand.. only major #plantations w big medicinal contracts, or #illegal #exporters supplying #weedhungry #overseas markets cld turn a profit.. We need to make it illegal again"👈⚖️
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3359599/thai-pm-threatens-shut-down-cannabis-industry-after-global-smuggling-spike

Harvesting fruit and vegetables 'in the middle of nowhere': The Pacific Islander farm workers scheme

"With about 30,000 PALM workers in Australia as of October, that equates to about 30 deaths per 100,000 people — more than six times the national average of 4.8 per 100,000."

"Back home, I usually drive for no more than 30 minutes before reaching my destination. Here, I'd drive for hours... after working 12-hour shifts." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/palm-workers-urged-to-obey-australian-driving-laws-/104730954

"Two Pacific Islander farm workers dead" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/manjimup-fatal-crash-pacific-farm-workers/106636166
#PALM #workers #food #farms #work #AgriculturalIndustry #SettlerSociety #roads #TyrannyOfDistance #transport #rural #cars #Australia #exploitation #plantations #MobilityDesign #WideOpenSpaces #FossilFuel #FoodMiles
Image: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939

#photomay2026 #photomai2026
4 - Graines
Ça pousse...
#verdistonfil #coriandre #basilic #plantations #fleuristonfil

The idea of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and ongoing clearfell logging of native forests

"Government GKNP proposal falls short according to Ashley Love...He says a recent environmental report, prepared on behalf of and with input from local environmentalists, indicates the current Government proposal is “grossly inadequate...It fails to adequately protect the largest coastal koala population in NSW, which occupies Bongil Bongil National Park, Pine Creek, Orara East and Tuckers Nob State Forests."

“The majority of plantation production is for pulpwood into a market that is now heavily oversupplied in South-east Asia or for burning as “biofuel” for electricity production.”
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https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/government-gknp-proposal-falls-short-according-to-ashley-love
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #governance #failure #thegreatkoalaNationalPark #ClearFelling #plantations #BellingenShire #TuckersNob #NSWForestry #extractivism

I'm listening to the audiobook of "Daring to be Free" on resistance to slavery, which is great. There's a lot more depth on some regions than others, but just got to a bit about St. Thomas (now part of US Virgin islands)

Most of the slaves they were bringing in during early settlement were competent sailors and shipbuilders, brought direct from Africa. And they were NOT going to stay. Fuck this, we're stealing anything sailable and getting out of here. And if we can't steal one, we're escaping into the interior and we'll MAKE one.

So governor at time has every single tree of a size suitable for dugout canoes cut down. On the entire island.

The sheer amount of EFFORT that had to go into maintaining this system. Sure, you were doing some ongoing deforestation to build plantations, but then to upgrade to full on massive deforestation to try and keep those enslaved people's ON those plantations is a whole nother level.

Surely that did not contibute to all the ecological problems you had in the following century. surely

IDK, there's a less here about hyperconcentration of wealth just leads to even greater concentration and more and more destructive methods of maintaining said system until it devours itself.

Interesting book overall!

#slavery #history #colonialism #plantations #environmentalDestruction #genocide

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

"Nous contraignons les animaux à s'adapter aux contraintes d'un élevage calqué sur la production en série d'objets manufacturés, alors que l'élevage devrait respecter les besoins éthologiques des bêtes. C'est une transgression car nous nous octroyons un droit absolu que nous n'avons pas. Cette violence envers les animaux nous accuse. Pourtant, le rapport aux animaux pourrait être l'occasion de penser une manière d'habiter la Terre qui rende possible la coexistence avec les autres espèces. Cela exige d'autres fondements de l'éthique et de la politique."

– Corine Pelluchon

#propriété #coexistence #eugénisme #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #plantations #esclavage #nature #séparation #épistémologie #spécisme #antiSpécisme #animaux #philosophie #croyances #écrabouiller #habitabilité #pleurabilité #citation #citations

Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶

@economics @histodons @geography

#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon

"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."

wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"

#wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism

La Fondation pour la mémoire de l’esclavage #FME a publié le 25 mars 2025 une Note importante consacrée à « La double dette d’Haïti (1825-2025) – Une question actuelle ».
• elle revient sur les circonstances de cet événement et les conséquences qu’il a eues,
• elle invite les autorités françaises à reconnaître l’injustice historique majeure que l’ordonnance a fait subir au peuple haïtien,
• elle formule des propositions pour engager entre la France et Haïti une démarche de réparation sincère, concrète et juste.
https://memoire-esclavage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/Note%20de%20la%20FME%20n4%20La%20double%20dette%20d%27Haiti%20web.pdf

événement jeudi à Pierrefitte-sur-Seine :
"La double dette, et après ? Bicentenaire de l'indemnité d'Haïti"
inscription obligatoire : https://yp.events/d0ed6110-2b18-4e6a-a283-33023940d1d7/La-double-dette-et-apr%C3%A8s--Bicentenaire-de-lindemnite-dHaiti/ticketing

#histoire #esclavage #extractivisme #accaparement #racialisation #racismeSystémique #capitalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #plantations #Antilles #Caraïbes #Caraïbe #NouveauMonde #Hispaniola #Haïti #SaintDomingue #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #agriculture #Nantes #Bordeaux #lectureDécoloniale #définitionDécoloniale #sucre #bonbons #gastronomie #desserts #dette #financesPubliques #déficit

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

Modern forestry techniques are destroying biodiversity, poisoning communities and compounding the climate crisis

"Perversely, the use of glyphosate and other herbicides is ensured by industrial monoculture plantations around the world. Under the pretext of climate change mitigation schemes, millions of trees are planted. The plantations do provide raw materials for biofuels and act as powerful carbon sinks. But when a natural forest is converted to a plantation, a natural ecosystem is destroyed. Biodiversity is lost and organic matter and nutrient levels are depleted. In a bid to manage reduced soil fertility, forestry planners use artificial fertilizers and herbicides. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost to monoculture plantations. The policy is not addressing climate change. It’s compounding it."

"A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are located in fire-prone regions that are often isolated. But the imperatives of eco-capitalism and the commodification of nature have long taken precedence over the traditional knowledge of Indigenous communities—to our collective peril."
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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canadian-forestation-policies-add-fuel-to-the-fires
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FlammableForest #plantations #pesticides #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #monoculture #SaveTuckersNob #pesticides #bushfires #climate #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateExtremes

Un appel contre #Bolloré : « Bloquons ses plateaux télés, occupons ses dépôts pétroliers, soutenons les luttes syndicales à l’intérieur de ses entreprises et médias, vendangeons ses vignes, redistribuons son fuel domestique à celleux qui galèrent à se chauffer, traquons le traceur, tissons des alliances internationales, organisons des boycotts, virons ses chaînes de la TNT et soutenons la création et l’assise de contre-pouvoirs médiatiques puissants ! »

https://www.off-investigation.fr/les-soulevements-de-la-terre-appellent-a-demanteler-lempire-bollore/

#plantations #infrastructures #logistique #accaparement #ravages #exploitation #appropriation #racialisation #racisme #nationalisme #misogynie #Françafrique #VSS #désastreClimatique #hégémonieCulturelle #batailleCulturelle #guerreCulturelle #lepénisation #droitisation #fascisation #industrie #impérialisme #CNews #médias #ARCOM #Blue #manuelsScolaires #éducation #automatisation #sécurité #politiqueFrançaise #politique #huileDePalme #déforestation #sursis #commentFaire #queFaire #mouvementSocial #Résistance #technique #machines #enthousiasme #joie #pouvoirDeSoi #décoloniale #VillageDeLEau #grèves #grève #grèveGénérale #lutte #luttes #révolution #révolutionnaire #autoDéfense #désarmer #désarmement #antiRacisme #clivageRacial #ligneDeCouleur #antiFascisme #DeuxSèvres #A69 #convergenceDesLuttes #lutte #luttes #révolution #révolutionnaire #LaRochelle #agroindustrie #agriculture #mouvement #cumul #écologie #écologiePolitique #intersectionnalité #LesSoulèvementsDeLaTerre #SoulèvementsDeLaTerre #manifeste

004Tarkeeth - Koala habitat converted to plantation

Dr. Cadman's video "shows active and recent conversion of original forest and koala habitat to plantation inside the proposed Greater Koala Park, undertaken by #NSWForestry despite repeated warnings. This is what clearfall forestry looks like."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx6fula8wU
#NSWForestry #FCNSW #RemnantVegetation #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #NativeForests #conversion #plantations
#BellingenLogging #ClearFelling #logging #Tarkeeth #destruction

The Forestry industry and the communities it supports cannot afford another fire.
Forestry industry still feeling effects of Black Summer looks at how to best protect plantations. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-12-30/forestry-communities-cant-afford-another-fire-after-black-summer/103272090
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #plantations #FossilFuel #bushfires #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis