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3 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Is there anything more obscene than #fracking a riverbed that is both elephant habitat and sacred land of the indigenous San people?

Terrible news: Test drilling in Namibia has begun. 1/3

Oil drilling upstream of Okavango Delta moves closer to reality nationalgeographic.com/animals/2021/0…
The Canadian oil company behind this is ReConAfrica. Its local advisor has been so hostile that his sneering denial that the Kanvango is ecologically sensitive made news—along w his claim that all any critics are acting in the interests of foreigners. we.com.na/news/kavango-n…
But there is something we can do. Supporters of the San people “custodians of this land for thousands of years who have never been consulted nor given the go ahead to any entities to prospect for oil or gas” have started a petition.

Join me in signing?

change.org/p/united-natio…
More background on the current state of play here:

petro-online.com/news/safety/15…
Really really good that the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights has now weighed in. Thank you! Let’s see what we can all do together to stop this this madness.

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PEDAGOGY IN A TIME OF EXTREMITY, a thread.

Fellow professors: I’m remote teaching the climate crisis during a pandemic crisis. Instead of taking attendance the analogue way, or allowing Zoom to do it in the digital way, I’ve been starting each class w a mental health check-in.
This doubles as a roll call. Sometimes I go first and set the tone and sometimes I go last but either way students popcorn around and all say hello to each other and offer a few (non compulsory) words about their own mental and emotional state.

The results have been amazing.
First off, I feel like we’re collectively normalizing the idea that these are extraordinary, surreal times and no wonder we go through freak-outs and suffer bouts of anxiety and not being ok. It’s a relief to just say that out loud and then... offer each other empathy.
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22 Nov 20
Hey, lonelyhearts. Here’s a story for you.

OTD in 1995 I’d just been dumped by a bad boyfriend w whom I’d made Thanksgiving plans. I was also weirdly anemic and going through a cancer scare.

Then, yay, a friend invited me to Vermont!

Her brother was chef!

BUT...
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Essentially bacterial mumps.

Young arrogant doctor projected annoyance. I didn’t fit the profile.

“Typically we see this in nursing home patients who have become dehydrated from neglect.”

Implication: *So you’re a freak*
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1 May 20
I’m done ignoring this tweet.

Re: “our movement” to confront “climate catastrophe.” Yes there is one. I am part of it. It is powerful, intersectional, justice-focused. It is not co-opted.

Michael Moore is not/has not been in that movement or anywhere near the “battlefield.”
New voices are welcome. Filmmakers especially. Critical voices are needed. But you can’t walk in,declaring yourself the speaker of the movement come to save it from corruption while getting the science wrong, misrepresenting the state of political play, and confusing the players.
Did you think you were breaking news by revealing the @SierraClub historical connection with the fracking industry? Those of us in “the movement” were openly fighting with the Club about this 8 yrs ago. orionmagazine.org/2012/03/breaki…
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20 Mar 20
So I’ve been living a different experience this week from other parents hunkered down with their kids. I haven’t been able to talk about it until today. This is a story that features my daughter Faith, the nation state of Chile, and @Chase Bank. It goes out to @rebecca_altman.
Re: @Chase: I have one credit card—same one since 1989 and I pay off the full balance every month like a Girl Scout. It’s a Chase card, and I’ve been holding onto it until Earth Day when I would replace it and cut it up as part of #stopthemoneypipeline

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16 Feb 20
I’ve been ignoring this latest just-sayin’ nonsense from long-standing reactionary bigot Richard Dawkins, who’s been spouting racist tripe since I was in grad school but now feel its my obligation as a biologist to respond. I think we all should.

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First of all Dawkins slyly misuses the term eugenics, acting as though it simply refers to the selective breeding of desirable heritable traits—as in livestock or food crops—and of course that principal would in theory be workable for humans.

But that’s not eugenics. 2/
The term eugenics was coined by Charles Darwins’ cousin, Francis Dalton, 24 yrs after Origin of Species (1859) in book called Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development.

Eugenics exactly refers to the attempt to breed racially superior traits IN HUMANS. 3/
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26 Jan 20
Friends, tomorrow, Jan 27, is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I’ll be taking the day off of Twitter for reflection. So today I’m threading together some thoughts on the things that I’ll be reflecting upon. 1/
I’m not a Jew nor a historian. I’m a biologist who began life as a “surrendered infant” adopted by a German American family, raised as a Methodist. On the day Auschwitz was liberated, my dad was an 18-yo soldier in Italy. Don’t be a Good German, said the man who raised me. 2/
Here are a few things I’m thinking about: 41 percent of US adults surveyed—and two thirds of millennials—say they do not know what Auschwitz was.

At the same time very few survivors remain to tell us their stories. Half have died in the last 5 years. 3/

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