Shell Ruling in South Africa a 'Victory Against Capitalist Extraction and Destruction of Our Future'

South Africa has banned seismic blasting in the ocean off the Wild Coast area.

Shell was going to do the blasting to search for fossil fuels that humanity cannot afford to extract anyway.

The blasting itself would have

harmed whales and other wildlife. I celebrate the outcome of this case, but I think that the views of people living near the proposed area of exploitation are a weak foundation for something as important as limiting fossil fuel extraction. The dangers of the extraction are global, and the ban should be global too.