Another thing: white prescriptives for people of color and the environment are often along the lines of DON'T LITTER! #COP21
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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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