Resistance of native populations from Canada to Romania to Bolivia. They know their areas best and
are most attached to them and dependent on them (e.g. for water).
337: Bella Bella, on the Canadian coast, where big ships are going to pass. About a hearing that didn’t happen because the visiting committee felt threatened by a bang on a car window.
342 Chalkidici, Greece, 343 Gillette, Wyoming, 344 water. (the importance of ‘love and water’. ) 348 early wins, also in China: some successes of ‘blockadia’. Corporations are becoming wary (voorzichtig)) 348 the divestment movement
when the extractive industry's culture of structural transience bumps up against a group of deeply
rooted people with an intense love of their homeplace and a determination to protect it, the effect can
be explosive." (344)
"… what has emerged in the movement against extreme extraction is less an anti-fossil fuels movement
than a pro-water movement." (344)
Water is contaminated not only by spills, but in regular production of tar sands and in fracking.
Resistance is growing in India, and particularly in China where pollution has become a big issue.
The student-led divestment movement has "put the fossil fuel companies' core business model on trial,
arguing that they have become rogue actors whose continued economic viability relies on radical
climate destabilization—and that, as such, any institution claiming to serve the public interest has a
moral responsibility to liberate itself from these odious profits.