Land Grabbing, Fossil Fuels, Monoculture: Exhibition Highlights Global Challenges

An exhibition is on display in the main building of the Steinmühle through mid-November, highlighting key global challenges and their social, environmental, and legal dimensions.

Among other things, it involves:

• Land Grabbing as a Criminal Offense: The Illegal Appropriation of Land and Its Impact on Local Communities.

 

• Monoculture: How industrial agriculture is displacing the traditional ways of life of indigenous peoples, as exemplified by the Bender people.

 

• Fossil Fuels: Global energy demand has doubled, yet 80 % of it still comes from fossil fuels. New record highs are being set every year.

 

• Legal proceedings against oil companies: Shell plans to withdraw from Nigeria following public protests against oil spills. This raises questions of responsibility and justice.

 

• Global water crisis: Despite a growing world population, water is becoming increasingly scarce. 2.2 billion people lack reliable access to clean drinking water. A large portion of indirect water consumption occurs in poorer countries, often at the expense of the local population.

 

• Land use for paper: Germany consumes 230 kg of paper per capita (2023), with 20 percent of its pulp coming from Brazil. The Pataxó Indigenous people are losing their land to pulp cultivation and face repression when they protest.

Ines Vielhaben, a teacher at Steinmühle and the ESD coordinator, borrowed the roll-ups—which can also be incorporated into lessons—from the Motives e.V. association.