People of color are disproportionately impacted by climate change; we've been alienated from conversation, but it's ours to have. #COP21
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It's not just science. Indigenous peoples have had lands and waterways colonized but that's never part of the climate conversation.
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And too often, when we talk about migration, we somehow suspend the environmental factors the contribute to movement.
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Lots of white folks have also blamed black and brown people for having too many babies, as if THAT'S what's driving climate change!
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Although white folks, who've acquired a disproportionate amount of wealth, have a way bigger carbon footprint.
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Another thing: white prescriptives for people of color and the environment are often along the lines of DON'T LITTER!
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I worked at an enviro day camp in college; it was for "low income" kids because the white woman who ran it "didn't see color."
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Daily activities for kids were about making sure they threw away their trash. (Who cares that a company was dumping in the river?)
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Which reminds me: think about your city. Think about where the railroad yards, ports, and trash dumps are. Oh, that's poc there, huh?
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Rail yards, ports, trash dumps all use diesel machines and vehicles. It's killer. Literally. And it's always poc that live there.
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I'll be tweeting out my articles, talks about poc and climate soon. For now, I wanna see your thoughts on poc and climate, please!
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Some things to know about
#COP21 and the climate in general, in case you're not caught up: 2015 will be the hottest year on record. -
It's getting hotter because we, as a planet, are burning too many greenhouse gases.
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To keep temperatures at level that can reasonably sustain life on earth, we've a carbon budget. We've used 2/3 of it already!
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Oh, and it's called
#COP21 because this is the twenty-first time we're having climate negotiations. The other 20 didn't work out that well. -
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Back to indigenous peoples and the climate: because of who I am and where I come from, this is something I've thought about a lot.
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This is a talk where I make connections about colonization, indigenous peoples, migration, climate:http://bit.ly/1q9VmQf
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(Also, I've been seeing folks, umm, borrow from my ideas here pretty heavily; would be nice to get some credit ok thanks.)
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I revisited the issue when writing about Typhoon Haiyan, too: http://www.thenation.com/article/typhoon-haiyan-global-poor-bear-deadly-brunt-climate-change/ …
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But when it comes to climate migration, we don't even have a FRAMEWORK for understanding this! Uff. http://bit.ly/1KMlsMr
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I've been guilty of using the terms climate migrant and climate refugee interchangeably without even considering the differences.
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Some peoples are already seeing their entire small island states disappear because of rising sea levels due to climate change.
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Not to be confused with people who have been displaced due to more severe and frequent weather events, also due to climate change.
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A lot to think about here—Hurricane Katrina and internal displacement comes to mind, of course.
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Philippines president talks
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As the forum's chair explains, when it comes to climate change, "those who have the least bear most of the burden."http://bit.ly/1HEaj62
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Oh, and even tho Paris is supposed to be about individual nation's contributions,
@TheCVF reminds us that this can only work collectively!
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