Gabriel Lafitte | Writer
Gabriel Lafitte
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25.01.2022 Foreign investment in Tibet: who, where, why. Fish farming, lithium battery factories, luxury hotels, extracting copper above Lhasa, power grids from Tibetan hydro dams to world’s factory. Case studies of China’s industrialisation and the foreign partners, plus what Tibetan advocacy could achieve: https://rukor.org/foreign-investment-in-tibet/
21.01.2022 Catastrophic climate change now sends Himalayan glaciers crashing into rivers, in Tibet and India, divided by an imaginary line that sunders Tibetans from Tibetans, impoverishing all. The Indian Uttarakhand flood disaster shocks, but remains mysterious because we fail to see it mirrored inside Tibet: https://rukor.org/catastrophic-climate-change/
08.01.2022 Tibet in 2021? Eight predictions & prospects: Five-Year Plan, counting all Tibetans, landscape custodians, river protection, hydrodams, biodiversity, copper mining, Tibet as nontraditional security threat. Eight-blog series for 2021 iron ox year trends: https://rukor.org/proletarianising-tibet-in-2021/
07.01.2022 China announces it will build its National Ecological Civilization Highlands in Tibet, complete with industrial ecologicalization and ecological industrialization. Can we allow ourselves to laugh at the pomposity of Beijing coercively teaching Tibetans to care for nature? https://rukor.org/a-new-communist-cosmology/
03.01.2022 Women warriors developing Tibet: grass roots clinics, midwives, wheelchairs, schools, replanting forests. It’s so yesterday, now evicted by developmentalist CCP centralised nation building. Back in the day: https://bit.ly/34aq9Vh
03.01.2022 We’ll all be dammed, the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra is doomed, likewise downstream India and Bangladesh. So says Global Times. Mischief making? Misinformation or disinformation? What mass media can’t tell you: https://rukor.org/a-dam-for-me-a-dam-for-you/
