AmazonWatch: Yesterday, an Ecuadorian appellate court upheld a historic $18 billion award against Chevron for the company’s deliberate contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The decision is the largest environmental award ever handed down and the result of an 18-year legal battle brought by some 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers seeking a clean up of contaminated sites, clean drinking water, and health care.
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this is important. if you can’t physically prevent anyone from destroying the planet, you can at least make them think twice about it before ever doing it again—sue the ever-loving crap out of em. you don’t have to be responsible, but if you make a mistake it’s gonna cost you. make examples out of them, finally.
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