Somalia ranks as the country “Least Likely to Survive Climate Change” according to the ND-gain Index. 2/https://gain.nd.edu/our-work/country-index/rankings/ …
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I'm an Amazon tech worker in Seattle with @AMZNforClimate.
My thoughts on how climate justice is intimately connected to the struggles of Amazon warehouse workers in MN, my co-workers, many who are Somalian immigrants.
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While Somalia's civil war is an ongoing conflict, the climate crisis is a threat multiplier, greatly exasperating issues already there. Climate change is feeding armed conflict in Somalia. 3/https://issafrica.org/iss-today/climate-change-is-feeding-armed-conflict-in-somalia …
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Somalia "is currently experiencing a drought that could threaten the lives or livelihoods of more than two million people by the end of the summer, according to the UN.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/08/somalia-climate-emergency-world-drought-somalis … 4/
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Many Somalians immigrated to other places (including the US) to escape life-threatening and harsh conditions. As immigrants without much access to money, in a new culture with a new language, they are particularly vulnerable to the treatment they are speaking out against. 5/
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Let’s explore who is most responsible for the climate crisis which Somalians are paying dearly for. 6/
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"Zak Cope calculates just how much value the global North extracts from the South, including a staggering $2.8 trillion per year in 'unequal exchange,' or artificially cheap labour." ~
@jasonhickel 7/https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1148487310633316352 …Show this thread -
That's why solutions to the climate crisis “must be rooted in recognition that exploitation of people and resources from slavery, colonialism, imperialism, neoliberalism and climate is one continuous arc of sacrificing the Global South to enrich the West.” ~
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More connecting of dots from
@MaryHeglar who connects slavery to the climate crisis in this brilliant essay: 9/ https://medium.com/@maryheglar/blood-at-the-root-black-americans-southern-soil-and-shared-trauma-6ef3ff9c81e …pic.twitter.com/Cod8oT8ex1
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And what are we in the West doing with our stolen riches? Fueling the climate crisis. Quite literally. 10/
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Amazon is actively helping fossil fuel companies expand and accelerate oil and gas extraction. In 2019. When the science is clear: to avert catastrophic warming, we *must* keep oil and gas in the ground. Thread on our romance with Big Oil and Gas: 11/https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1104218682253729792 …
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See also
@bcmerchant's excellent reporting: 12/https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828 …Show this thread -
NYT reports this week: Amazon is funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a “think tank” with a long history as a key leader in the climate denial political movement. CEI was a crucial advocate urging Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. 13/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-cei.html …
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Even if there weren’t such a clear climate connection to our co-workers struggle in MN, I’d still be very happy to lend my support and stand in solidarity with the MN warehouse workers. As a fellow worker, but also as a human being. 14/
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As the climate crisis accelerates, it will bear down on more and more of us, more and more harshly. We need to take care of and support one another. Solidarity with my co-workers in MN, who are striking on Prime Day for humane working conditions!
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I made a couple of errors in how I referred to people who are from Somalia: It's “Somalis,” not “Somalians.” Thank you for the correction,
@webnetdotonline!https://twitter.com/webnetdotonline/status/1150814746653990912 …Show this thread
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