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2022-04-16 19:28:04 | Newsメモ
BBC Kingsbury oil depot protests lead to more than 100 arrests 7 Apr 2022

More than 100 arrests have been made in the past week after demonstrations at an oil depot in Warwickshire.

Activists from Just Stop Oil have been trying to obstruct access to a site in Kingsbury since a series of England-wide protests started on 1 April.


BBC Kingsbury oil depot protests lead to 29 arrests over weekend 11 Apr 2022

Twenty nine people were arrested during weekend demonstrations at an oil depot in Warwickshire.

Climate protesters have been trying to obstruct access to the Kingsbury depot and other sites, demanding an end to new oil and gas projects.

The alleged offences included criminal damage, conspiracy to cause criminal damage and conspiracy to commit public nuisance, Warwickshire Police said.


"While we will always recognise and respect the public's right to peaceful protest, we will take action against anyone who breaks the law or causes significant impact on the local community."

Protests have been taking place at oil terminals across England and officers say they had led to more than 330 arrests.

 それはそれとして、鉱業なくして我らの生活は成り立たぬ、と。

BBC How ending mining would change the world By Laura Cole
14th April 2022

Mining fuels the modern world, but it also causes vast environmental damage. What would happen if we tried to do without it?

"If you can't grow it, you have to mine it" goes the miner's credo. The extraction of minerals, metals and fuels from the ground is one of humankind's oldest industries. And our appetite for it is growing.

Society is more dependent on both greater variety and larger volumes of mined substances than ever before. If you live in a middle-income country, every year you use roughly 17 tonnes of raw materials – equivalent to the weight of three elephants and twice as much as 20 years ago. For a person in a high-income country, it is 26 tonnes – or four and a half elephants' worth.


The first shockwave would be to jobs. Across the world, ending mining would terminate an estimated four million formal jobs in the industry. And the toll wouldn't stop there.

 さしあたり、雇用は大変に失われますし。付随する産業領域だって広大だ。
 まあだからオーストラリアで、ああまで環境運動家が元気でも、そうそう鉱山を止められないわけだ。

 …そもそもというか、化学肥料を作れなくなれば、地球人口のざっと半分は消えて貰わないといけませんしね。
 最高度に分配を最適化すれば、かなり減る人数は減らせようけれども―その「最適化」の内容には、当然極めて高度な輸送網があろうし。
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