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1/29. ๐Ÿ“œNEW BRIEF: Today we launch โ€œPASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN: A Non-Economic #LossAndDamage (#NELD) Explainerโ€ covering what #NELD is, why and how it happens, where it happens, who is most affected, and importantly, how we can respond.

๐Ÿ”—Get it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/paโ€ฆ
2/29. The brief begins with a foreword by @UNFCCC NELs Expert Group Member @IrfanUllahCDO, who highlights that Non-Economic #LossAndDamage has been largely overlooked in climate negotiations and that urgent action is needed to address #NELD happening now e.g. The #PakistanFloods.
3/29. Then @DLodry of @LossDamageYouth shares the powerful story of his lived experience of Non-Economic #LossAndDamage in #Cameroon called "The Tears Of A Village River And Its Population" which tells how climate-intensified #Drought can lead to a loss of #Culture and #Identity.
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[Thread] Many people say that #France does โ€œno longerโ€ need #Africa. Their argument: Franceโ€™s declining trade share in the continent, and esp. with the 14 countries still using a colonial currency controlled by the French Treasury, the #CFA #franc.
They stress in particular that Africa represents around 5% of French global trade. So, for them, this is evidence that any claim of French dependence on Africa or #neocolonialism is an exaggeration.
Their argument has a name: the โ€œsmall ratio argumentโ€ (SRA). It was used by those who denied the tremendous economic impact of the slave trade on the economic development of the West. It is now used by the cheerleaders of French #neocolonialism.
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While there are lots of problems with FB, Insta & co, Meta's newest project, the metaverse, sound super exciting! Looks like Meta is putting lots of money towards Oculus' #quest to build long-distance-presence solutions.

#metaverse #meta #facebook

2 reasons why the Metaverse has potential:

1. Most importantly, remote work is here to stay. But for hybrid work settings (i.e. some in the office, some remote) there is no good solution yet. Metaverse intends to solve that.
2. Many of today's issues require coordination on a global scale. Think of the #ClimateCrisis, the #BiodiversityCrisis, overcoming #NeoColonialism and #inequality, et cetera. The Metaverse promises to make such coordination comfortable, natural and effective.
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Anything I post, is not an attack. It is for education, to the show the absolute hypocrisy against the #EasternMetis and how we have similar history. A-Social-History-of-the-Manitoba-Mรฉtis.- Published by ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ’
A-Social-History-of-the-Manitoba-Mรฉtis.1974. - published by @MBMetis_MMF
pg125 -๐—˜๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ "Indeed, the Metis, the only true Natives, since both the Indians and Europeans were immigrants to this continent.."๐Ÿ˜ฒMe-"Wow, those are some bold fighting words!!" Published by ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ 1974
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Special Analysis
"In a world dominated by American exceptionalism and #neocolonialism, #hunger has become a weapon of #war."
by @VanessaBeeley
mintpressnews.com/as-syria-strugโ€ฆ #Syria #military #CaesarAct #sanctions #COVID19 #Covid_19 #Economic #RegimeChange #Syrian
"I was told of fires mysteriously ignited to the West of Sweida destroying food crops there."
Map showing all the crop-fires raging intermittently across #Syria. Credit | Ibrahim Mohammad Image
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1/ When #covid19 struck the world at pandemic scale, somehow the spotlight immediately turned to the US and Europe as the "leaders" of the response. Is this not ironic when in fact Asian and African countries have far more experience w/ infectious disease outbreaks?
2/ @DrMishalK and I wrote a piece on why this flawed line of thinking has taken root (hint- it was not surprising to either of us). As researchers who work in #globalhealth on understanding #neocolonialism-- a modern application of colonial views/power dynamics...
3/ We are seeing #covid19 as another blatant example of neocolonialist, xenophobic, and outright racist (in a number of cases) ideologies that are obstructing not only the US response, but threaten to do the same to responses in low/middle income countries.
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_Cornell Universityโ€™s Alliance for White Supremacy - GMOs, NeoColonialism, & the American Dream_

"I couldnโ€™t contain my excitement!
I had gotten into a prestigious ivy league program at #Cornell ...

medium.com/@jd.feliz/cornโ€ฆ

#MyAfSJourney
#AllianceForScience
#YesAllWhitePeople
"At 36 years old, me, a child raised by a single mother on the little island of #PuertoRico โ€” who had had to give up their spot at other prestigious college programs and settle for public state university at 18 years old โ€” had made it. ..

#MyAFSJourney #AllianceForScience
"My mother had celebrated my achievements of having been accepted to these other schools. Unfortunately, she was not even able to purchase a plane ticket for us to simply visit the schools or to afford the meal plans or housing despite ..

#MyAFSJourney #AllianceForScience
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this is a long thread on #nauru, where i spent last week. nauru is currently most visible as a site for australiaโ€™s offshore detention of asylum seekers and refugees. it is also the location of a longstanding #phosphate mine which covers over 2/3 of the island 1/22
#nauru is experiencing considerable #climatechange. im going to outline some of the social-environmental stresses i observed that nauruans, refugees and asylum seekers are facing, and why we need to talk about #colonialism and #environmental racism for #climatejustice 2/22
#nauru is a beautiful island. its main resource is #phosphate. germany colonised nauru in the late 1800s and in the early 1900s the british found phosphate and started to exploit it for fertiliser and munitions with australia and nz, who became nauruโ€™s trustees in the 1920s 3/22
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