#Wild Coast

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Yale Environment 360:

For nearly a decade, Nonhle Mbuthuma has traveled with a bodyguard. The founder of the Amadiba Crisis Committee — a local group formed to fight a proposed titanium mine along South Africa’s Wild Coast — Mbuthuma has long had the support of many in rural Pondoland’s Xolobeni community. But opponents have demonized her as an arch enemy of all economic development, and some have been encouraged to believe that if Mbuthuma “disappeared,” they would get rich.

Eight years ago, Mbuthuma’s activist colleague Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, who opposed the mine, was shot dead outside his home by two men dressed as police officers. (Neither assailant has been caught.) Mbuthuma was also a target that day. Amadiba succeeded in halting construction of the mine, and Mbuthuma, 46, has continued working to protect this highly biodiverse region and the traditional culture of the Mpondo people.

This week, Mbuthuma, and her colleague Sinegugu Zukulu, won a Goldman Environmental Prize for their recent efforts to prevent Shell Oil from prospecting along the Wild Coast. As the activist headed to San Francisco to pick up her award, she spoke via Zoom with Yale Environment 360 about Pondoland, plans for its future development, and continuing threats to her life.

Yale Environment 360: Tell me about your struggle with Shell Oil.

Nonhle Mbuthuma: When we heard in late 2021 that Shell wanted to do seismic blasting off the coast, it was like someone put a bomb to our chest. These waters are precious, with rich ocean currents and reefs feeding whale calving grounds and fisheries. That water is part of us. We have cooperatives that do environmental fishing, using rods rather than nets that wipe out everything. But the ocean is also a sacred place. According to our traditions, our ancestors reside in the ocean. We have a right under our country’s constitution to practice our culture, and that requires protecting our waters. So we decided to fight in the courts.

The government had already given Shell permission to start seismic blasting. Shell is a big company with a lot of money, but we said that they are not bigger than our livelihoods and culture. We mobilized our communities to collect information to explain why the ocean is so important to us. We were backed by protests all over the country.

Even as the surveying began, the high court ruled in our favor. The judges said the permit to do the surveys had been granted unlawfully because the government had not considered the impact on our livelihoods and culture and because Shell did not consult the community, which is a requirement of our constitution. But Shell and the government have decided to appeal the judgment.

[witchstone]

Cape Cormorant  Phalacrocorax capensis Wild Coast Trail, Mlambomkulu River to Mfihlelo River, South Africa -31.43471659, 29.8090139501 by tonyrebelo

[t-a-f-a-r-i]

[pietropazziphotography]

Guiding Light. A breathtaking reminder of the harmony between land and sea.

#GuidingLight #SeascapeArt #FineArtPhotography #CoastalInspiration

[petitworld]

Polly Joke, North Cornwall, England by Chris Marshall

[sohannabarberaesque]

On the beach of Cape St. Francis, South Africa (which, if you recall the classic surf documentary The Endless Summer, had "the perfect waves" surfing-wise):

[And we find no less than Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole getting ready to pull off some waveriding most pure and primivive] MOROCCO MOLE, in his accent redolent of the Kasbah: Uh, Secret Squirrel ... SECRET SQUIRREL: Yes, Morocco ... what have you in mind here? MOROCCO MOLE: Since when did we last watch The Endless Summer and recognise this place had the most perfect surfing waves, even if we're in the midst of a case investigating certain Weird and Unwholesome Associations Among Poor Whites Who Should Know Better with American "Patriot" and MAGA types? SECRET SQUIRREL, trying to feign indifference to the subject to hand: How should we know, to begin with? [At least we do find the two finding some stoke on South Africa's Wild Coast in perhaps Africa's most famous surf spot, though time and the rise of surfing globally may have changed things.]

[alexmurison]

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

[summerwages]

shy child...

[dykedvonte]

Love that in New Vegas you can like personally and permanently fuck over your human companions:

You can destroy the Brotherhood of Steel which Veronica still considers her family despite their differences. On top of that you can kill Elijah and Christine, the latter not being necessary or beneficial to you at all.

You can set up Cass and take her to the Silver Rush to be killed by Jean-Baptiste. Which is extra cruel cause you can literally only do it by first getting her to sell out to the people who tried to kill her in the first place.

You can put more innocent blood on Boone’s hands and fuck with his head more by having him kill his former best friend who is the last person he is implied to have any sort of relationship with outside the Courier.

You can literally sell Arcade into slavery to the Legion in where his hatred for every single one of them is so strong he literally disembowels himself as a final fuck you and so he doesn’t have to spend one more second there.

Not to mention how you can just ignore ED-E, Lily, Rex and Raul’s issues leading them to live their relatively immortal lives full of hardships, unhappiness or inevitable slow deaths. Like it’s not cool but it’s really cool that the game lets you be really awful along with really good.

[descendinight]

西海岸West coast

[humming-fly]

Inktober Day 1 - Time to play it back once more~

Happy 10 years to Over the Garden Wall, and happy 10 year anniversary to my inktober day 1 starting theme! :)

To commemorate the occasion please enjoy this walk down memory lane~

[mybeautifulpoland]

Baltic Sea, Gdynia, Poland by Grzegorz Januszewicz

[simpleapparition]

had an idea after the teeth of god tour announcement so i had to sketch it

[charmed-n-zesty]

Just another lovely day.

[thesilicontribesman]

Jack Scout Ancient Coastline, Silverdale, Lancashire

[artstantpansies]

FINISHED!!! i think. what is it about wild wet and worrisome that compels me to recreate renaissance masterpieces........gaughhhh

this has been a ~12-cumulative-hour-long project. i had a ton of fun but ohhh my word. i'm glad to be done. it's not perfect but i think it's good and that's good enough for me :3

wahoo yippee