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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is a single Chevron waste pit in the Amazon. Probably has 10,000 gallons of oil toxins seeping
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Steven Donziger
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This is a single Chevron waste pit in the Amazon. Probably has 10,000 gallons of oil toxins seeping into waterways that Indigenous peoples use to drink, bathe and fish.
Multiply this pit by 1,000. That's @Chevron's legacy in Ecuador.
And more on this poor fellow getting run roughshod over by Chevron:
BREAKING: @thenation explains how @Chevron colluded with a judge to deny me a jury of my peers in 2013 -- and how it is doing it again today as I face an unfair trial and prison. Meanwhile, in the Amazon my clients are dying from Chevron's pollution.
A New Justice Movement Emerges to Defend Steven Donziger
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This is a single Chevron waste pit in the Amazon. Probably has 10,000 gallons of oil toxins seeping (Original Post)
soothsayer
Jan 2021
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WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)1. k&r
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)2. K and R
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)3. r&k
Yeehah
(4,587 posts)4. Humans shall pay an awful price for our wanton destruction of the biosphere
It is likely too late to prevent widespread environmental disasters.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)5. I'm very heartened when I watch shows like "After We're Gone" that shows how quickly the earth...
...erases any sign of us.
That, and neglecting the yard. Nature comes back hard - but we ought to stop fouling it.
Yeehah
(4,587 posts)6. The thousands of species we destroy will never come back
We are a part of nature but many humans see nature as an enemy that must be destroyed.