A piece on pragmatism and realism
People march in the streets demanding the end of fossil fuel energy so that we might head off another mass extinction. The wise, realistic leaders explain that this sort of fairy tale goal is not reasonable. The outcome will be another mass extinction.
People march in the streets demanding stricter gun control, so that they are not shot when they go to school. Moderates in the Senate explain that such bills are not viable, but perhaps there is a small, symbolic compromise to be had somewhere. The outcome will be that more kids are shot in schools.
People march in the streets to ask that some of the money we spend on police be spent instead on social services, so that people in crisis might have someone to call on other than men with guns who take them to jail. Political consultants explain that such ideas poll poorly, and must be rejected with great force. The outcome will be the continuation of the failed attempt to deal with all social problems at gunpoint.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/radical-is-rational
People march in the streets demanding the end of fossil fuel energy so that we might head off another mass extinction. The wise, realistic leaders explain that this sort of fairy tale goal is not reasonable. The outcome will be another mass extinction.
People march in the streets demanding stricter gun control, so that they are not shot when they go to school. Moderates in the Senate explain that such bills are not viable, but perhaps there is a small, symbolic compromise to be had somewhere. The outcome will be that more kids are shot in schools.
People march in the streets to ask that some of the money we spend on police be spent instead on social services, so that people in crisis might have someone to call on other than men with guns who take them to jail. Political consultants explain that such ideas poll poorly, and must be rejected with great force. The outcome will be the continuation of the failed attempt to deal with all social problems at gunpoint.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/radical-is-rational
In These Times
Radical Is Now Rational
When reality changes, only fools don't change with it.
"More than half of the population in Moroto District goes without any food for an entire day and night for at least three days a month"
Existing food insecurity is rising as the climate crisis worsens! We need reparations and climate finance now!
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/food-insecurity-malnutrition-in-karamoja-worsens-3844052
All this has been caused by mining, that region has a lot of minerals, A 2011 survey found that the region contains over 50 minerals including gold, limestone, uranium, marble, graphite, gypsum, iron, wolfram, nickel, copper, cobalt, lithium, and tin. But suffer instead of benefiting, once mining is done the minerals discovered are always exported to western world, this has been happening for more than two decades, now both animals and people are collapsing due to lack of food, pasture, access to clean water and healthy facilities.
Global north companies should stop acting green when they continue to invest billions in projects that fuel human suffering in the Global South. We know them and soon we will start exposing them one by one.
Existing food insecurity is rising as the climate crisis worsens! We need reparations and climate finance now!
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/food-insecurity-malnutrition-in-karamoja-worsens-3844052
All this has been caused by mining, that region has a lot of minerals, A 2011 survey found that the region contains over 50 minerals including gold, limestone, uranium, marble, graphite, gypsum, iron, wolfram, nickel, copper, cobalt, lithium, and tin. But suffer instead of benefiting, once mining is done the minerals discovered are always exported to western world, this has been happening for more than two decades, now both animals and people are collapsing due to lack of food, pasture, access to clean water and healthy facilities.
Global north companies should stop acting green when they continue to invest billions in projects that fuel human suffering in the Global South. We know them and soon we will start exposing them one by one.
Monitor
Food insecurity, malnutrition in Karamoja worsens
More than half of the population in Moroto District goes without any food for an entire day and night for at least three days a month
Africa is warming faster than the global average
https://www.voanews.com/amp/africa-warming-more-faster-than-other-world-regions/6277177.html
https://www.voanews.com/amp/africa-warming-more-faster-than-other-world-regions/6277177.html
Voanews
Africa Warming More, Faster Than Other World Regions
Authors of a new report on Africa’s climate warn the continent is heating up more and faster than other regions in the world, and they said Africa needs immediate financial and technological assistance to adapt to the warming environment.
Climate finance should be new and additional. What global north countries are doing is diverting money from international aid budgets to climate finance and this is doing more harm than good (if at all there's any good being done) because international aid goes to fund health programs, humanitarian and development programs in the Global south.
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CARE International
World’s richest countries top-up climate finance with funds diverted from world’s poorest
The latest report from CARE shows that most public climate finance reported by rich countries is actually taken from development aid budgets that are meant for health, education and fighting poverty
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Rethinking the team sub saharan africa.
Check out this resources to learn more on why the separation of North africa and sub saharan africa can be argued as racist and part of the colonial history.
1. https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/rethinking-the-term-sub-saharan-africa-36
2. https://qz.com/africa/770350/why-do-we-still-say-subsaharan-africa/
3. https://twitter.com/BethTekola/status/1512015536812658688?t=8C8obtveoVqr2jxVc_6p3w&s=19
4. http://www.voanews.com/content/butty-sub-saharan-africa-campaign-onyeani-20september10-103260644/155853.html
Check out this resources to learn more on why the separation of North africa and sub saharan africa can be argued as racist and part of the colonial history.
1. https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/rethinking-the-term-sub-saharan-africa-36
2. https://qz.com/africa/770350/why-do-we-still-say-subsaharan-africa/
3. https://twitter.com/BethTekola/status/1512015536812658688?t=8C8obtveoVqr2jxVc_6p3w&s=19
4. http://www.voanews.com/content/butty-sub-saharan-africa-campaign-onyeani-20september10-103260644/155853.html
The African Exponent
Rethinking the Term “Sub Saharan Africa” | The African Exponent.
My big criticism of the term SSA is that it divides Africa according to white ideas of race making North Africans white enough to be considered for their glories, but not really white enough.
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The ongoing drought in East Africa has led to increased child marriage
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/7/14/photos-dramatic-rise-in-child-brides-in-drought-hit-horn-of-afri?sf167901843=1
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/7/14/photos-dramatic-rise-in-child-brides-in-drought-hit-horn-of-afri?sf167901843=1
Aljazeera
Photos: Child marriages, FGM rising in drought-hit Horn of Africa
Somalia is the worst affected country, with around 386,000 children needing treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
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Happening tomorrow:
How movement cocepts, narratives & knowledgenare co-opted to promote a corporate agenda.
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https://event.newschool.edu/greenwashingdisastercapital
How movement cocepts, narratives & knowledgenare co-opted to promote a corporate agenda.
Sign up to attend the virtual space:
https://event.newschool.edu/greenwashingdisastercapital
https://twitter.com/FFF_Indonesia/status/1550086436505866240?t=85gJ-w3COA8Fn_avv29nWQ&s=19
Please share this and show your support as Indonesia now is hosting G20 Summit🔥
Please share this and show your support as Indonesia now is hosting G20 Summit🔥
Hey everyone,
We just announced the Global Climate Strike date!
Please like, retweet, reply, comment, and boost!!
https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1550438777767747584?t=pcl8bKO4Piwzbz47BeZ43Q&s=19
https://twitter.com/Fridays4future/status/1550437219625799680?t=oWnXHUEsYM8-eBuMRGAoQQ&s=19
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We just announced the Global Climate Strike date!
Please like, retweet, reply, comment, and boost!!
https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1550438777767747584?t=pcl8bKO4Piwzbz47BeZ43Q&s=19
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Heavy flash floods killed more than 100+ people in Balochistan.
Please amplify these tweets below.
https://twitter.com/Fridays4future/status/1552305986727288840
https://twitter.com/FFFbalochistan/status/1552305037757628421?t=m1gKapFwYnS-t2xj7OraiQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1552314904325099521?t=rTnxyaCBgg67XoZoryYrSA&s=19
Please amplify these tweets below.
https://twitter.com/Fridays4future/status/1552305986727288840
https://twitter.com/FFFbalochistan/status/1552305037757628421?t=m1gKapFwYnS-t2xj7OraiQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1552314904325099521?t=rTnxyaCBgg67XoZoryYrSA&s=19