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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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pvonhellermannn, to Kent
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and hosepipe ban announced from 26 June

“Some households in Kent and Sussex have been without water since Monday due to supply issues”

@junesim63 you were sayjng this the other day: good to finally have a now but it really sounds like they left it to the very last minute, in the name of “business as usual”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-65927032

pvonhellermannn, to random
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more school walk musings. We have these majestic around here (they are really amazing). At the moment the ground is covered with their dry leaves. They are evergreen and i don’t remember ever seeing this before. In June.Is it the ? But could also have just not noticed this in previous years.

Thinking a lot about again at the moment and - and how it is really hard to monitor continuities and changes, unless they have direct relevance for you

The dried grass and dead leaves underneath it at the moment
Another picture taken just now on school walk, showing road and pavement covered in dry leaves

aral, to climate
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Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.

pvonhellermannn,
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@aral Yes, though it’s not one or the other - all interlinked. beheviour change can impact policy, and we hwve sonlittle time that we cannot wait for policy to curb corporations, we need .

We should also distinguish, some people have much higher personal responsibility than others. Those in public eye who don’t change high carbon lifestyles suggest all is fine to millions of others.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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i mean, i’ve been thinking and reading about the pretty much nonstop for 5 years now and yet sometimes i find myself still taken by surprised just how quickly we have moved from “something to worry about for our children” over “something already happening elsewhere if you pay attention” to being right in it. Anyone else?

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@albertcardona @algowatching
This is brilliant! So much in one cartoon. Do you know who it’s by?

pvonhellermannn,
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@albertcardona @NatureMC @algowatching

Have just googled it - there is a whole world of , with many different versions, articles about them, a Facebook group .. someone obviously did an original drawing at some point but this is just one of many different alterations. Was strangely unaware of it all until today!

pvonhellermannn, to uk
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Good piece on #Vaping. It’s definitely widespread at #UK schools. Many children start in Year 7, when they are 11 or 12, and by Year 8 “everyone does it”.

Disposable vapes are bad for children and for environment too. The #Lithium in them makes them a waste hazard, and Lithium mining has high environmental and social costs - if at all, it should be used for #EVs and medicine, not vaping. Typical of our shitty government that they were given go-ahead 1/4

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/14/the-child-vaping-crisis-from-what-my-daughter-says-90-of-her-year-do-it?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Screenshot of title of guardian piece

pvonhellermannn,
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2/4 Adding to yesterday’s post on ⬆️ here a piece on mining in at and the campaign bg local communities against it.

https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/wilbert-on-lithium

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3/4 and here a recent piece on the fire hazard disposable cause at waste plants

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/13/single-use-vapes-sparking-surge-in-fires-at-uk-waste-plants

pvonhellermannn,
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4/4 and here a #Vape i happened to see on a neighbouring street just yesterday- i wouldn’t have recognised it before looking at vape pictures in the morning! So pretty and appealing - “strawberry and kiwi flavour” - but children end up inhaling #Nicotine of 20 cugarettes in half a day, destroying their lungs. Do read article in 1/4 toot ⬆️.

Maybe I’ve entered the world of #MoralPanic, i don’t know, but it all rounds seems pretty bad to me, and so unnecessary as a new thing to take off now

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Excellent summary here of key climate news of the last two days, by @heinz - in German but you can translate of course.

It’s reading them altogether that you get a full grasp of where we are at - i alwyas have those chapter beginnings in in mind, those powerful overviews - one of the inspirations for in fact.

40°C temperatures in and so much more

https://graz.social/@heinz/110541282361095178

pvonhellermannn, to uk
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Huge sad outburst by 12yo (in Y7) just now about how boring school is. Day after day the same things, double maths, double English, all hammered in for in 4 years. Would love to hear from any or teenage parents on here: Is the English National curriculum really just incredibly boring?

She also said: what is the relevance of all this for ? I want to learn history and geography and science, the things that actually matter and will help us 💔 1/2

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Staggering that a large part of methane emissions is just a wasted byproduct of oil and gas production

“About a third of the measures scientists say are needed by 2030 to halve emissions would be at no net cost. With the planet close to dangerous climate change, and the evidence of extreme weather events always in the news, it seems surprising politicians continue to do so little to slow methane emissions”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/09/methane-reduction-climate-emissions-weatherwatch?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

alx, to random
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The silence of environmentalists on the happening in right now is appalling.

Today's entry in my is short and sad, estranging me more and more from a crowd I thought I belonged.

pvonhellermannn,
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@alx yes - i posted this message this morning from Olivia Hercules this mroning, she was saying exactly this too

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/110507163731452457

gkbhambra, to sociology

In this issue of Discover Society, the various contributors examine different aspects of the relationship between who pays and who benefits, addressing the longer colonial histories that have shaped national institutions and ideas of legitimate claims upon a supposed national patrimony

Alex Cobham, Mike Savage, Laura Clancy, Karen Rowlingson & John Narayan

@sociology @politicsbot

https://discoversociety.org/2023/06/07/editorial-who-pays-who-benefits/

pvonhellermannn,
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@gkbhambra @sociology @politicsbot this looks great Gurminder! I really look forward to reading it

pvonhellermannn, to random
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This morning a Canadian friend here in Eastbourne told me she has many friends who moved to for beautiful, idyllic rural lives but who now have to deal with all the time. She sent me this 2018 article which captures all this so well. “I now see trees differently, as fire hazards”.

But she also told me that her friends in do not want to admit this. They never mention the fires, 1/2

https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/living-through-bc-wildfires_a_23518446

pvonhellermannn,
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@NatureMC You are so right. I have to say this really got to me just now. Thenk you

pvonhellermannn, to random
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A message from , who comes from the area that is now flooded by the dam breach in , “to all the eco-warriors out there”: this is a real ecological and humanitarian disaster, an act of . First the creation of the dam in the 1950: then its breaking: so much ecological and human damage

https://twitter.com/Olia_Hercules/status/1665998103088885760?s=20

pvonhellermannn, to Anthropology
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Back home after this brilliant, transformative and workshop at the . Thank you @gabi_cabana @lucia_musu and @lorenzovelotti
for putting it on ❤️. So many young, wonderful anthropologists actively helping build the “Tapestry of Alternatives”

14:45-16:15 “Critical perspectives on Anthropology and Degrowth” Ieva Snikersproge (University of Barcelona) - "Anthropology and degrowth: deepening the dialogue" Ritu Verma (Carleton University) - “Anthropology and Degrowth, Wellbeing and Decolonial Alternatives: At the Cross-current of Critical Analysis and Activist Engagement” Pauline von Hellermann (Goldsmiths, University of London)- “Towards a Regenerative Anthropology” 16:15-16:45 Break 16:45-18:15 “Reimagining transitions out of the growth paradigm” María Montesino (University of País Vasco) - "Inhabiting the rural. An ecosocial approach to food production" Lys Alcayna Stevens (KU Leuven) - “Environmental Justice & Degrowth in Central Africa” Cristobal Bonelli (Amsterdam University)- “Reducing emissions and omissions by reactivating common sense: the case of Lithium”

pvonhellermannn,
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The is this actual existing, fantastic project I learned about at the workshop, but I was using it just now in the wider sense of people joining up and building networks across the world. I see and the very much part of this - thinking of all the wonderful people i met here quietly living alternatives, possibilities

https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/

pvonhellermannn,
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A real highlight at yesterday's and workshop was a presentation by three brilliant MA students, on the project they launched. It maps and links together
projects across Europe

Please check it out and share, it's a really great project

@RadicalAnthro @nathan_oxley @natureworks @AgroecologyMap

https://commongroundseu.hotglue.me/

pvonhellermannn, to random
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At the moment is full of posts by people affected by the in , having breathing problems etc. Also post after post of people in waiting for rain. It makes it all very real.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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I am reading a student’s dissertation on in Lewisham and she basically did all her research taking her three younger brothers along with her and i want to give her a first for this alone.

Also the descriptions of them all planting seeds, playing with soil and enjoying are just 💚

Goldsmiths anthropology students are just the best - I just so hope our department survives 😥

pvonhellermannn,
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@UpWeardale Yes, me too, early/mid 90s - it was definitely so much easier then.

It’s not new cuts as such, or rather, they already happened, replaced by fees. One problem amongst many is lifting of caps, ie universities can now take as many students as they want, leaving fewer for other institutions.

Because of the huge debts they incur students also now go for “safer” degrees, where they can earn more money afterwards, impacting disciplines like anthropology.

So very uneven:

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pvonhellermannn,
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@sjanep @ecologies This panel looks great! I stumbled across it just now looking for an earlier toot from myself - I am participating in an Anthropology and Degrowth workshop at the LSE on Monday, and saw that Lys Alcayna-Stevenswill be at both - it will be really good to hear about your panel, and to create some links. I would also love to hear about your work in Tanzania - will DM you soon

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