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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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It is quite extraordinary how much I have shifted on tactical voting over the last year. I used to be all for it; that the main thing was to , etc. In general always for “lesser evil” pragmatism. That has completely gone - i now see no hope in any establishment parties & wouldn’t urge anyone to vote for Starmer or Biden.

Although now realising that here in UK that shift is related to thinking Labour will win anyway: if it were closer I might still be very focused on ..

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https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112513175280363579

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This is something I am deeply worried about too; throughout but again this morning, with Israel’s horrendous bombing of a refugee camp just days after ICC put out a warrant against Netanyahu, and again, so far, NOTHING from Biden and co:

that the liberal world order so obviously means nothing, is a sham; that “Might is Right” - always but now so completely clearly so. As Nesrine Malik says, this will have wider repercussions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west

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@Loukas yes… of course anti-american doesn’t automatically mean pro-putin, but it does work in his favour, i can see that.

I just wish they would all go away; all fossil-fuel based super powers, geopolitics, industrial-military complexes; that all the ordinary people in the world can mobilise against all of them together.

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The Papua New Guinea national disaster centre on Friday’s landslide in a remote village in the northern part of the country:

“The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction to buildings, food gardens and caused major impact on the economic lifeline of the country,”

The mentioning of “food gardens” shows their centrality to people’s livelihoods. These people contributed nothing yet are now destroyed by climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/papua-new-guinea-landslides-death-toll-enga-province-rescue-efforts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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A horrific attack on the “safe zone” in Rafah this evening. Many people burned in their tents.

https://x.com/GazaMedicVoices/status/1794851432618975437

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https://climatejustice.social/@iinac/112506590763936453

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If anyone here is near in the next few weeks: do come and see the Emma Stibbon “melting ice rising tide” exhibition at the Towner Gallery, which rather brilliantly connects her polar art with new work on the changing Sussex coast line.

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After the exhibition we went to seafront itself; tried to take pictures of beautiful cliff gardens - see last year’s! On ! - but will need to come back in morning with better light. Still, beautiful as always but yes, crumbling…

Close up of wild plants, sea and pebbles in background and blue sky
Close up of yellow plants on rocks with woodlice
The overall cliff with same yellow and purple plants

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Thinking about impermanence, all the more at the moment because if i lose my job we might have to move. I have moved so much in my life and used to not mind, but I really love Eastbourne and really don’t want to move; I wonder whether that’s also because of an overall sense of uncertainty and insecurity. Or maybe i am just getting older and all change seems bad..

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@odaraia thank you so much for pointing this out. This is very true and has made me think and appreciate what i have a lot more.

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I am so heartened and impressed by the growing student protests and support from faculty in Germany. That here, too, more and more people are saying that unconditional support of Israel is morally entenable, that Germany has to stop supplying arms; that combatting antisemitism does not mean killing 10,000s of innocent people.

Protesters are doing this despite considerable state and police repression and violence.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/25/punched-choked-kicked-german-police-crack-down-on-student-protests

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I am beginning to think - the drenched suit, the Titanic site and now compulsory military/social service: is it all totally disastrous on purpose? Some kind of revenche Tory party destruction? I mean, it’s April Fool’s Joke level stuff.

Conservatives want to bring back mandatory national service https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

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Aditya Chakrabortty on how
Starmer and Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics.

“This summer marks the 17th since the collapse of Northern Rock, the start of the banking crisis and what should have been the beginning of the end of Britain’s ruined economic and political model. Yet we enter our fifth general election since then with the same old conjuring tricks and half-hearted flourishes that have dominated politics my entire adult life.”

Hard agree.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/25/election-pm-change-politics-keir-starmer-rishi-sunak

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UK: The Hay Festival dropped
its main sponsor after boycotts from speakers and performers over the firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies. Hooray! Protest works!

https://www.hayfestival.com/news/blog.aspx?post=1693

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During a typical day my attention turns over various aspects of humans and the climate crisis. At least once a day, some days it might be half a day, the thoughts come and go along with a generally persistent climate anxiety. Often times the thoughts are replays of variations of questions about why humans are failing to act to preserve their future. Today as I walked my dog Cosmo I considered the different approaches we could be taking...

https://beardystarstuff.net/2024/05/24/during-a-typical.html

pvonhellermannn,
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@dennyhenke thank you for sharing this here - all those thoughts, daily, again and again: me too. Wanted to highlight this, though, as this, too, is true for me:

“I get the sense that there is this collective delusion, a coping mechanism that is not quite working. A daily denial that allows for people to get up and function in a pretend normal. And yet, sometimes it feels like we are in a collective panic, a kind of slow motion stampede that goes nowhere as there is no obvious exit.”

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Can anyone explain why Ugandan Judge Sebutinde consistently votes against halting genocidal crimes in Gaza?

pvonhellermannn,
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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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#ClimateDiary Kidney disease is high and rapidly worsening in coastal Bangladesh due to rising sea levels increasing water salinity as well as extreme heat. For many, like 65yo Khatun, dialysis is too expensive.

The whole of Khulna, once a thriving city, is affected by saline intrusion due to frequent floods, cyclones and tidal surge.

“The global climate crisis is essentially a water crisis,” says Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha at UCL.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/24/its-in-our-rivers-and-in-our-cups-theres-no-escape-the-deadly-spread-of-salt-water-in-bangladesh?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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And now has made landfall in Bangladesh and over one million people have been evacuated. I am thinking of Khatun and Ahmed, I hope they are ok, that they don’t lose their home or possessions.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/26/india/cyclone-remal-india-bangladesh-landfall-intl-hnk/index.html

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How to note Sunak’s election announcement here? Getting drenched in rain was symbolic & symptomatic; tragically a child died in a mudslide in Yorkshire the same day.

Will this election be decisive from a climate policy point of view? Labour will be better, but how much exactly who knows, given scrapped pledges. Of course i am hopeful for Green party gains. But actual positive excitement and energy, again rallying everyone to make this a etc? sadly, no.

pvonhellermannn,
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@ScotHomestead oh that is just awful. So sad. Yes, we do need to reassess so much.

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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 #ForestGarden. 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 #RegenerativeAnthropology, Yesterday I mentioned this in a talk about #RegenerativeAcademia 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

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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.

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@melanie yes! I think you are right.

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🧵 39/n

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

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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