Water-related conflicts are occurring across Uruguay, over its use and control, with big business interests pitted against the right to safe drinking water, writes Mar铆a Noel Gonz谩lez.
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Marie Flood, a member of the聽Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends, gave this聽speech at a聽Sydney climate protest alongside First Nations activists, unionists and high school activists speaking out for real action on the climate.
We are often told that plastic waste聽contaminating land and waters聽is 鈥渞ecyclable鈥. It could be聽but,聽as Patrick McDonald聽explains, government support for the fossil fuel industry means that the plastics being produced聽are not.