With the slaughter in DRC escalating again, let’s remind ourselves of
the time The Atlantic – in a fit of callous idiocy – tried to convince
us that there was a good side to the mass killing of Africans. It ran a
headline proclaiming that the war in eastern Congo has “kept the planet
cooler”! [...]
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Death Of Africans ‘Good’ For PlanetWith the slaughter in DRC escalating again, let’s remind ourselves of the time The Atlantic – in a fit of callous idiocy – tried to convince us that there was a good side to the mass killing of Africans. It ran a headline proclaiming that the war in eastern Congo has “kept the planet cooler”!
Apparently, the suffering of millions – over 6 million killed, over 7 million displaced (500,000 in January) – is just a minor footnote when it comes to virtue-signalling your green credentials.
To be fair, they did add a subheading: “The grim ironies of climate change.” But that grimness has nothing to do with climate change. It has everything to do with a 30-year resource war that, to a large extent, is fuelled by the West’s continued hunger for cheap resources and has created one of the biggest humanitarian crises on the planet.
The article’s author, Ross Anderson, casually noted that war had slowed down the economic exploitation of the Congolese rainforest. But he forgot to mention that the illicit timber trade is one of the very things driving this conflict.
Meanwhile, as Congo’s war rages on, Western corporations continue their relentless exploitation of the Congolese people, sending them into perilous, pollution-spewing mines. Villages are being erased, forests are disappearing and rivers are turning into toxic soup – all in the name of greed. All very good for the environment – not!
So here’s a thought for Western editors and journalists: how about treating Africans with the dignity they deserve in your stories?
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