Tar sands mining threatens migratory birds including the whooping crane.

Extracting oil from tar sands is a sort of strip-mining which involves deforestation of large tracts of land.

Wildlife reserves in Africa face the death of a thousand cuts.

Australia sent boat people to a prison in Manus Island (part of Papua New Guinea) so that they would not be "in Australia", then claimed that Papua New Guinea was responsible for their imprisonment although in fact Australia had control.

The first part resembles the US excuse for the Guantanamo no-human-rights zone.

The EU says it plans to reduce CO₂ and methane emissions but it will give a subsidy of around $150 million to fracking.

This is excused by the fallacious claim that fracking reduces greenhouse emissions, but that conclusion was drawn by ignoring the methane leaks from wells.

Indian students have been arrested for comparing Prime Minister Modi with Hitler and bin Laden.

Whether that comparison is valid is beside the point: to punish them for stating their views is tyranny.