Southeast Asian Environmental Movement

From inquire.net article "The environmental movement in the global South / The pivotal agent in fight against global warming?" By Walden Bello

Occurred in the 70s and 80s
Philippines: nuclear power, dams, marine pollution, deforestation
Thailand: dams, marine pollution, deforestation
Indonesia: dams

Indigenous opposition in Philippines and small farmers and fisherfolk in Thailand lead to the abandonment of the Chico River Dam and Pak Mun Dam projects, respectively.

"In the case of the Philippines, for instance, deforestation was seen as an inevitable consequence of a strategy of export-oriented growth imposed by World Bank-International Monetary Fund structural adjustment programs that sought to pay off the country’s massive foreign debt with the dollars gained from exporting the country’s timber and other natural resources and manufactures produced by cheap labor."

"In Indonesia, for example, the environmental organization WALHI went so far as to file a lawsuit for pollution and environmental destruction against six government bodies, including the Minister of the Environment and Population. By the time the dictatorships wised up to what was happening, it was often too late: environmentalism and anti-fascism fed on one another."