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pvonhellermannn

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Regenerative Anthropology and/as Climate Action

#ClimateDiary; writing book about palm oil; political and historical ecology, climate justice, commoning

Avatar: a small person in a raincoat in a mirror with metal loops with LED lights swirling in front. This is the artwork “Sedibeng, It Comes with Rain” by Dineo Seshee Bopape, in Towner Gallery in Eastbourne

Background: a palm oil mill in North Sumatra, in a luscious green landscape.

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MaQuest, to random
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Now following

pvonhellermannn,
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@MaQuest me too! 😊

pvonhellermannn, to random
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“Are WE the baddies?”

YES, we are. Right now. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112483183672624032

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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The name of the boy shot by a sniper whilst cycling to school in the West Bank yesterday morning was Mahmoud Hamadneh.

Israel kills with impunity. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112480751216315538

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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Every day the saddest, most awful pictures coming out of . This one is from Jenin in the West Bank and it’s a school boy killed whilst riding his bike and like so many others it is just 💔💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭

RadicalAnthro, to random
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Great news that is going to stand against genocide complicit in the Holborn/StPancras constituency in the UK General Election this year

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-andrew-feinstein-starmer-challenge-politics-hope-rekindle

pvonhellermannn,
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@RadicalAnthro I just saw that 5min ago! Such fantastic news. He gave a great talk here in Eastbourne a few weeks ago

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Here an excellent interview with Maya Wind, author of “Towers of Ivory and Steel”, giving a really introduction to the central role that Israel’s universities play in advancing its settler-colonial agenda - right across engineering, middle eastern studies and archaeology, and through the settlements and geographies they themselves bring with them. Hugely illuminating, and made me reflect on complicity of all universities.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/politics-theory-other/id1370561641?i=1000654135048

pvonhellermannn,
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Here a link to “Towers of Ivory and and Steel”itself - appears to be FREE as an ebook!

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3009-towers-of-ivory-and-steel

pvonhellermannn,
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@tk oh fantastic - thank you for adding that!

pvonhellermannn, to random
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This too is going to get so much worse.

And yes, I am aware of the irony/tragedy/whatever-you-want-to -call -it, that flying contributes to climate change and therefore turbulence. And now pondering whether climate change will in turn soon make flying too dangerous, and that there is a certain justice in that. All this; but for now do feel sorry for people on this flight.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/21/singapore-airlines-flight-777-300er-london-bangkok-turbulence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Pope Francis:

"How worried are you about climate change?"

"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem," Francis replied. "Climate change at this moment is a road to death."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-urges-action-on-climate-change-its-a-road-to-death/

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Cate Blanchett ❤️

nina, to Bulgaria German
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Nachricht via @BR24: Tunesien setzt Migranten systematisch in Wüste aus

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/tunesien-setzt-migranten-systematisch-in-wueste-aus,UDIEIL7

Es macht mir Angst und Sorge, dass wir das in Europa akzeptieren.

pvonhellermannn,
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@nina @politics Das wird ja alles für uns dort gemacht

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opinion/melilla-morocco-europe-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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Waking up these days is like:

Lost in strange city, can’t find train station or children - phew, nightmare

Genocide - real, STILL going on

Redundancy looming, Goldsmiths, HE in crisis - real, not gone away over night

Climate Crisis, potential of complete breakdown - real, still there..

Time to get up! At least the sun is shining today.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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How can this be. How can the killing and destruction go on and on and on. How can a refugee camp be bombed and there be no outrage or reaction. How can US continue supplying arms when there is a new invasion. And what has happened to ceasefire negotiations after Israel’s latest rejections?

Israel pushes further into parts of north Gaza; new cracks in Netanyahu coalition | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-wounded-israeli-forces-thrust-deeper-gazas-jabalia-rafah-2024-05-18/

pvonhellermannn, to Palestine
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18 Palestinian Shepherding Communities Have Been Recently Erased in the West Bank. This One Might Be Next
Settlers have harassed a Bedouin hamlet near Jericho for years, but during the war they have ramped up the intimidation. Clad in army uniforms, equipped with army vehicles, the pogromists have seized land in the area and set up 13 new outposts – all since October

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/2024-05-18/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/18-west-bank-shepherding-communities-have-been-recently-erased-this-one-might-be-next/0000018f-83c5-d9d6-a38f-87ff376b0000

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to cycling
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Another
fantastic cycle around Eastbourne today, with over 200 of us, including many great very young cyclists! Most people friendly and waving, though of course a few irate car drivers … who seem to think of children on bikes as the enemy..

Anyway, it was great; nothing better than cycling in a large group in the sun. Couldn’t photograph whilst cycling - this is just before take off

RadicalAnthro, to london
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Amazing lineup stand under the new
'Holocaust survivor descendants against Gaza genocide!' banner on yesterday's march in commemorating Nakba.

We are very proud of Mark (standing rhs of the left banner pole) who has brought this network together. They attend all the marches and actions.

pvonhellermannn,
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@RadicalAnthro ❤️

pvonhellermannn, to Palestine
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Every Saturday since November here in Eastbourne

Picture of protest outside Eastbourne station

Unknowable, to random German
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  • Praying for Armageddon -

On BBC iPlayer in the UK, and here on Aljazeera cc @pvonhellermannn Sehenswert.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2024/3/20/praying-for-armageddon-evangelicals-the-us-and-the-middle-east

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27009795/

pvonhellermannn,
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@Unknowable THANK YOU. I haven’t quite finished it yet but when j have i will post it again - as many people as possible should watch it! What I particularly appreciate is that i knew bits and pieces (about for example), but this makes the whole phenomenon of evangelical zionism so much clearer. I hadn’t heard of Christians United for Israel (CUNI), nor of systematic evangelical conversions in the military. And wasn’t so aware of centrality of in all this. Scary.

pvonhellermannn, to Futurology
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Brixham, a Devon harbour town, has been struck by an illness caused by a microscopic parasite - cryptosporidium - in the water!

About 16,000 households and businesses in the Brixham area have been told by South West Water (SWW) not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.

Not an expert but it does strike me as symptomatic of the state of our water companies and water system.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/17/devon-businesses-fear-losses-as-tourists-put-off-by-outbreak-of-parasitic-disease?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn,
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@alx yes!! I was really struck by that too. Also reminded of when there were fires in Greece a couple of years ago and all the articles focused on tourists complaining about their evacuation not being handled well. Not quite the same I know, but misplaced tourist-centring in both.

kim_harding, to random
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Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/using-vague-language-about-scientific-facts-misleads-readers/
Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.

Original research paper here

pvonhellermannn,
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@kim_harding yes! News articles say “scientists believe” so often, and it always annoys me. They don’t believe - they tell us what all the most recent research says!

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

pvonhellermannn, (edited )
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The crisis in HE (higher education) is so tangible it’s making headline news; our dangerous exposure to changes in migration/visa regimes and therefore whims of government ever more apparent.

Who is completely silent on all this (as fas as I know), as on everything else? Starmer, Labour. It would make a massive difference, and would work for them. But no. Everyone beholden to the same - imagined! - anti-woke, anti-immigration, anti-university voter.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunak-faces-cabinet-backlash-over-plans-to-curb-foreign-student-visas

pvonhellermannn,
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Anyway, here a nice comment piece by Polly Toynbee

“Tories and their pollsters see as clear as day that the growth in highly educated citizens, above the OECD average, is a social and political revolution not in their favour: the more educated people are, the less likely they are to vote for what John Stuart Mill called “the stupidest party”.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/tories-foreign-students-universities-crisis-economy-soft-power

pvonhellermannn,
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@Roadwarrior29 i hope so but with so many universities (including my own) on the brink of collapse all this talk now affects international student decisions to come to UK this September and a significant drop there will be disastrous for some HEIs.

pvonhellermannn,
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@meeshqoyoo well yes ..

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