Dylan Baddour
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Dylan Baddour
@dylanbaddour.bsky.social
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Covering Texas for Inside Climate News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born. Likes plants
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"We are fighting to survive while watching the oyster beds get covered in silt, the crabs and shrimp choke and fisherfolk and our families get nosebleeds nightly from the pollution when working in the waters our parents and grandparents worked for decades."
Guest column: Dredge spill in Cameron Parish highlights worries with LNG megaprojects
LNG projects promise economic benefits, but when things happen, it's fishers that pay the price, guest columnists Ray Mallet and Alyssa Portaro argue.
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“They put this word ‘poor’ in us. Whoever smells like mud or sweat is poor. I believed I was poor.”

“They said we must leave inheritance for our children. But real inheritance is knowledge. Of the fruit and the fish and how to care for your body.”

“Humanity is about to fall.”
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“People from the outside don’t understand the importance this has… for them it is just a mountain.”

“For us, the word ‘development’ means destruction and poverty.”

“We are weak to defend our territory but we continue anyway.”
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“Water is worth more than copper.”

A sign near the site of a proposed new copper mine at the edge of the Amazon Basin in Mocoa, Colombia
A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival

The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible.

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A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival - Inside Climate News
The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible.
insideclimatenews.org
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My first job was in international human rights in the 80s. This is how death squads operate:
An immigration agent to a protester who was filming their vehicle’s license plate: “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.”
This horse won’t stop staring in the window
“Do you know why there are so many gas stations here?” asked my taxi driver in the Colombian Amazon

Half the gas goes to vehicles, he said. The rest goes to make cocaine

Coca leaves soak in gasoline to extract cocaine for sale abroad. Coca cultivation drives deforestation & violence in the Amazon
“Water is worth more than copper.”

A sign near the site of a proposed new copper mine at the edge of the Amazon Basin in Mocoa, Colombia
“Asadito de cuy” in Villa Garzón, Colombia, at the Amazonian foot of the great Andean highlands
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Actually I’m totally wrong. These are chontaduras. BUT THEY LOOK A LOT LIKE TREE TOMATOES
Apparently coca cultivation in the area is currently larger than ever. Good job crop dusters
Did you know? This tropical fruit is called a “tree tomato” (“tomate de árbol”). Pictured at the plaza de mercado of Macao.
The copper discovery is fairly news, about 5 years old. Soon the world will know! I’m fighting the feelings to abandon my life and live here forever
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“We have to decide if we want to be an Andino-Amazonian territory or if we want to be a mining territory.”

“The copper will go to sustain the lifestyles of the northern countries, as always, at the expense of wellbeing in the southern countries.”
“No mega-mining”

A mural in Mocoa, Colombia, near the site of a large proposed copper mine
“Water is worth more than copper”
“People from the outside don’t understand the importance this has… for them it is just a mountain.”

“For us, the word ‘development’ means destruction and poverty.”

“We are weak to defend our territory but we continue anyway.”