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Sim Barr

The Herds

The Herds is a public arts initiative with an aim to bring awareness to the the issues of climate change - which often results in the forced migration of animal species. The Herds will travel 12,400 miles and visit 20 cities across four months to “flee climate disaster,” with the group making their way from the Congo Basin through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Norway - finishing in the Arctic Circle in August.

The puppets are made primarily from recycled materials: cardboard for the skin and rubber for the joints.

As it travels, the herd will be joined by new locally created puppets representing local species, such as vervet monkeys in Nigeria, wolves and red deer in Europe, and reindeer in Norway. Sadly, some puppets will also 'die' along the route

For more info visit www.theherds.org

#theherds#climatechange#puppets
Sim Barr

The Herds

The Herds is a public arts initiative with an aim to bring awareness to the the issues of climate change - which often results in the forced migration of animal species. The Herds will travel 12,400 miles and visit 20 cities across four months to “flee climate disaster,” with the group making their way from the Congo Basin through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Norway - finishing in the Arctic Circle in August.

The puppets are made primarily from recycled materials: cardboard for the skin and rubber for the joints.

As it travels, the herd will be joined by new locally created puppets representing local species, such as vervet monkeys in Nigeria, wolves and red deer in Europe, and reindeer in Norway. Sadly, some puppets will also 'die' along the route.

For more info visit www.theherds.org

#theherds#climatechange#puppets
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities. To this day, it is still too contaminated for inhabitants and their descendants to return. A trust fund that had been set up to help support the survivors ran out of funds in the late 2010s.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#bikini
Ilan Kelman

Just published:
"Climate and Mobility: Challenges and Cautions for Research and Policy"
doi.org/10.1515/9783110752144-
 
More on #ClimateChange #ForcedMigration:
1. Book bloomsbury.com/uk/climate-migr
2. Papers (general) doi.org/10.3390/socsci8050131 and doi.org/10.1108/DPM-09-2013-01
3. Papers (islands) doi.org/10.24043/isj.52 and doi.org/10.24043/isj.120
3. Commentary psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/di
4. Video youtube.com/watch?v=AyU-z53x7g
 
#Climigration #ClimateRefugees #ClimateMigrants #EnvironmentalRefugees #EnvironmentalMigrants

De Gruyter · 2 Climate and Mobility: Challenges and Cautions for Research and Policy2 Climate and Mobility: Challenges and Cautions for Research and Policy was published in De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice on page 38.
8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]
...we’ve identified three new trends in how European countries are erecting barriers:

- borders are being heavily policed and the resources used to manage the borders have transformed

- Europe-based NGOs that support migrants are being harassed

- the asylum process is being exported or subcontracted, to African countries.

The EU’s “fortress” approach is a waste of resources that could be put to better use in more humane and sustainable ways. No matter what measures European countries take, irregular migration will continue. Mobility is natural to human life. People will always seek out better options.


#italy #libya #asylumseekers #tunisia #migrantcrisis #humanitarianaid #Africanmigrants #Europeanimmigrationpolicy #Economicimpact #Forcedmigration #migration #EU #NoBorders #FestungEuropa
EU migration policy is getting tougher: the 3 new tactics used to keep African migrants out

The ConversationEU migration policy is getting tougher: the 3 new tactics used to keep African migrants outNew tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#bikini
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Estelle Platini

Between 1932 and 1948, Yosef Weitz was the director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Settlement Department. He wrote in his diary:

On 1941, June 22:
"The land of Israel is not small at all, if only the [Palestinian] Arabs will be removed, and if its frontiers would be enlarged a little; to the north all the way to Litani [River in Lebanon], and to the east including the Golan Heights […] while the Arabs be transferred to northern Syria and Iraq […] From now on we must work out a secret plan based on the removal of the Arabs from here [and] to include it into American political circles."

On 1941, June 26:
"Through out the journey my reflections were focused on [the plan] of evacuating the country for us [the settlers]. Only through population transfer will redemption come […] There is no room for us with our neighbours […] They [the natives] are too many and too much rooted [in the country]. The only way is to cut and eradicate them from the roots. […] People and money will be transferred there. We will set up an apparatus from the Yishuv manned by distinguished experts and these will supervise the [Palestinian] Arab transfer and resettlement and a second apparatus will receive the [Jewish] redeemers and plant them in the land."

On 1948, April 28:
"Khayriyah and Saqiyah [two Palestinian Arab villages in the coastal plain] have also been cleared out. My plan is getting implemented."

In 1949:
"[During the British Mandate period, the JNF had purchased land] crumb by crumb. But now a great change has taken place before our eyes. The spirit of Israel, in a giant thrust, has burst through the obstacles, and has conquered the keys to the land, and the road to fulfillment has been freed from its bonds and its guardians-enemies [referring to the natives]. Now, only now, the hour has come for planning considered [regional] plans […] The abandoned lands will never return to their absentee [Palestinian Arab] owners."

palestineremembered.com/Acre/F @palestine @israel @idf @terrorism

www.palestineremembered.comYosef Weitz-A Brief Biography & Quotes - Palestine RememberedArchitect of transfer: Weitz was a Polish Jew who settled in Palestine in 1908. He was the prime mover behind the 1st and 2nd Transfer Committees 1937-48.
#Nakba#JNF#refugees
testing

there is a reason why i keep focusing on poetry from central asia: forced migration and genocide have been going on in many places, e.g. in myanmar > i believe that we should take a look at a not-so-distant past when many ethnic groups were forcefully displaced, and learn from it

in the 20th century, central asia witnessed a huge influx of deportees belonging to ethnic groups such as north koreans, greeks, germans, chechens, crimean tatars, italians, estonians, and many turkic groups, plus many more > all of them got deported to central asia, and many of them died, suffering from hunger and illness

koryo saram poet chŏng sang-chin once stated:

The Kazakh people are very kind. If it weren't for them, we would have all died. Korean people should never forget their gratitude towards them.
source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chong_Sang-chin

chŏng sang-chin's statement applies both to every single group affected from forced migration, and the diverse local central asian ethnic groups who have populated the region for ages > the figures are impressive:
By January 1953, there were 988,373 special settlers residing in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, including 444,005 Germans, 244,674 Chechens, 95,241 Koreans, 80,844 Ingush, and the others. As a consequence of these deportations, Kazakhs comprised only 30% of their native Republic's population.
source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union

forced migration in the 20th century changed central asia forever, becoming a home to a great many diasporas > having endured needless suffering, the diverse ethnic groups managed to turn soviet central asia into a cultural hotspot hitherto unseen > most of that took place without other parts of the world taking notice > i deeply feel that this has to change #poetry #genocide #ForcedMigration
en.m.wikipedia.orgChong Sang-chin - Wikipedia
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BellingenNSW

Fossil fuel combustion kills

Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy

"This is the first review to analyze the substantial body of literature that enables approximate quantitative estimation of the human cost of carbon emissions, measured in lost human lives."

"When attempting to quantify future harms caused by carbon emissions and to set appropriate energy policies, it has been argued that the most important metric is the number of human deaths caused by climate change."

"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter."

"Despite repeated and ever more serious warnings from the scientific community, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase as fossil fuel combustion increases."

"Measuring carbon emissions in human lives not only makes the numbers easier to understand for nonexperts but also clarifies energy policy priorities: clearly, allowing a policy to cause manslaughter is intuitively unacceptable."

mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074
theguardian.com/environment/20
#energy #policies #Australia #governance #drought #FossilFuels #BushFires #heatwaves #casualties #emissions #GHG #harm #crimes #manslaughter #ForcedMigration #DeathToll #genocide #sacrifice #PrematureDeath #GHG #catastrophe #risk #ClimateGenocide #climate #biodiversity

MDPIQuantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy PolicyWhen attempting to quantify future harms caused by carbon emissions and to set appropriate energy policies, it has been argued that the most important metric is the number of human deaths caused by climate change. Several studies have attempted to overcome the uncertainties associated with such forecasting. In this article, approaches to estimating future human death tolls from climate change relevant at any scale or location are compared and synthesized, and implications for energy policy are considered. Several studies are consistent with the “1000-ton rule,” according to which a future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned (order-of-magnitude estimate). If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter. On this basis, relatively aggressive energy policies are summarized that would enable immediate and substantive decreases in carbon emissions. The limitations to such calculations are outlined and future work is recommended to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy while minimizing the number of sacrificed human lives.
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