There was a list of 50 eco heroes in the Guardian yesterday, the good (Joss Garman and Caroline Lucas), the bad (Angela Merkel) and the ugly (Lomborg!), Debal Deb gets a mention and Chinese advocate of ecosocialism Pan Yue.
On the whole it misses out all the real green heros, people around the globe defending the forests from logging and enclosure. The people for whom ecology is about personal survival for themselves and for the rest of nature, that 'development' is about poverty, seperation from what allows them to live and is about destruction of the environment.
They are always always out of the picture! Commons is superior to any other method of conservation but people in commons everyday are being killed, the commons fenced and the land enclosed burnt to a cinder. Kelesau Naan is a recent example
Naan, 70, has been a key figure in anti-logging efforts by the Penans, who say the timber industry is destroying their ancestral lands and snatching their customary rights over the forests. State government authorities and many timber companies reject the claim.
Naan's disappearance came ahead of what villagers believe are plans by companies to resume logging, which has stalled in recent years in areas surrounding Long Kerong, the village that Naan headed.
International anti-logging groups have voiced concerns over Naan's disappearance, saying he was an initiator and key witness in an unresolved Penan land rights court case.
"Long Kerong is one of the few Penan communities that, by fierce resistance, has managed to keep the loggers at bay and preserve parts of their communal forests," the Bruno Manser Fund, a Swiss-based advocacy group, said in a December statement.
Bruno Manser, who I wrote about in my book on Earth First!, may have been killed by loggers back in 2000 in the area, his body has never been found.
Meanwhile the city makes £bns out of emissions trading...will the real greens stand up and the fake greens f**k off!
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