What can you do, personally, to help urgently address climate change? #1: Talk about it. Whenever you can. With anyone who will listen. Talking builds up support for radical action, and nourishes a culture that will make the changes we need inevitable.https://grist.org/briefly/groundbreaking-study-outlines-what-you-can-do-about-climate-change/ …
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Why blame the problem of climate change on black women’s bodies on the side of the planet instead of looking at how much fossil fuel the Pentagon burned in the last ten minutes alone? Why this fixation on African women to solve a problem they didn’t create?
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Hi Aura, the full study is here (pdf free to download). The study is specifically and only aimed at developed countries, because that's where most of the pollution is created. So the "avoided" children are those of high consuming populations only. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/meta …
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The original study is here (the one above only cites it). I must say I didn't like that study then, and I still don't. Emissions track with expenditure: if a wealthy family has fewer kids, those kids will just have more wealth each, total emissions same. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378008001003?via%3Dihub …
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I think it's a pretty terrible framing, and also for the reasons you mention: people who read it will just think "THEY need fewer kids" and aim that at whatever populations they like least (brown, foreigner ...). Then we're back to ecofascism.https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/janet-biehl-and-peter-staudenmaier-ecofascism-lessons-from-the-german-experience …
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Don't have time to read these today, but I appreciate you taking the time to send these links!
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Providing contraceptive options, birth spacing counselling, and access to education and income are feminist policies and it's biggest supporters are women of colour in countries like Kenya.
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Wow. Thank you, random man from the internet, for explaining feminism to me, a woman born and raised in a developing country!
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