Earthlife Africa is a non-profit organisation, founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1988, that seeks a better life for all people without exploiting other people or degrading their environment. We want to encourage and support individuals, businesses and industries to reduce pollution, minimise waste and protect our natural resources.
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With ocean acidification now occurring faster than at any point in the past 300 million years, COP17 (and every other COP) has failed the ultimate metric of reducing global emissions. And we are all to blame. Governments have been completely unable to agree on global solution to a human-caused problem that, if unchecked, will send us all into a mass extinction event. Business continues to adopt high-carbon growth paths. As for global civil society? It can hardly been said that we have build the kinds of powerful movements for change that can bend the wills and desires of rulers and captains of industry to put the environment before narrow national or commercial interests.
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One year on, Earthlife Africa Jhb and Greenpeace Africa will be hosting a series of event to remember the Fukushima tragedy; a painful lesson for South Africa politicians are aiming to make the same mistakes regarding nuclear power. Below the fold is a list of open events on Fukushima, please do come: Monday 27 Feb – [...]
