Articles by Kumi Naidoo

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Davos: The Shifting Nature of Power and the Shifting Power of Nature
Kumi Naidoo - Greenpeace, 27 Jan 2014

One of the most challenging weeks of my working life starts today [22 Jan 2014]: the week of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Over 2,500 presidents, prime minsters, CEOs, celebrities and academics with a smattering of civil society, will be holed up in a small and posh mountain resort in Switzerland.

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Drilling Deep Mistakes in the Arctic
Kumi Naidoo – TerraViva Europe, 27 Jun 2011

I came in defence of the fragile Arctic environment. I became the 22nd Greenpeace activist who in the last few weeks has volunteered to climb the rig in the middle of the Arctic. I came to add my body to the protest and my voice to the call for sanity and an end to dangerous deep water oil drilling in the Arctic. I became the 22nd activist to be arrested and held in a Greenlandic cell. How can it be that in the wake of the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill disaster an oil company can be allowed to drill at a similar depth in the Arctic, where any cleanup operation would be all but impossible.

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