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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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Lylamehta, to Israel
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Can anyone explain why Ugandan Judge Sebutinde consistently votes against halting genocidal crimes in Gaza? #ICJ #Israel

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@Lylamehta No idea. But maybe she is an evangelical? They are very strong in Uganda. I found this storyville programme on evangelical zionism very illuminating, i have to say. Praying for Armageddon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z96s

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My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!

Here are my 8 reasons for this:

  1. POSSIBILITIES
    At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
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@natureworks I can't thank you enough for this. Yes, 100% applicable to a . In fact, your reply made me realise that my whole understanding of anthropology is, actually, centred in forest gardens; that's what I do, basically! and forest-garden centred thinking is core to my idea of , Yesterday I mentioned this in a talk about and someone said: so we need Forest Universities, like Forest Schools 💚. Wanted to share that with you!

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This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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🧵 38/n

A rare silver lining to severe cuts in local council budgets: for the last few years Eastbourne have stopped spraying our streets and I love this time of year, flowers reclaiming the streets everywhere.

Orange flowers. Again, should look up name.
Yellow flowering plant in front of yellow wooden gate
Mexican daisies and purple flowers on wall

pvonhellermannn,
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@Loukas maybe not ideal but i fully agree with you, it’s something that can and does happen - vibrancy, life in unanticipated, unplanned ways. There is definitely something positive about that.

pvonhellermannn,
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@melanie yes! I think you are right.

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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 39/n

Have to add this here. The last 14 years summarised in 4 images #UKPolitics #GE2024

EDIT: here link itself too as images in screenshot i complete

https://x.com/ACORNunion/status/1793934201860792465

pvonhellermannn,
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@junesim63 😊 thank you! I know i looked them all up last year but had forgotten everything this morning… campanula in particular i really should remember. It’s everywhere at the moment!

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