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Famagusta church

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2008

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some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now

gaza soup kitchen

the sameer project

salam charity

watermelon relief

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Two Berber men stuff rose petals into sacks during the Rose Harvest in Dades Valley.  El Kelaa des M'Gouna, Morocco, 1989 @julio donoso

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Darkening sky– thunder in the distance. Martha Lake, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks, SEKI, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA. Photo by Van Miller

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Les couleurs de la ville

Gouttière

Rue Calas

Croix Rousse

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Lyon

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Stop The Terror Of israel

Arabic translation: Stop Zionist terrorism

Artist: Unknown

Circa 1983

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Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it’s never ‘too late’ for change

from the article:

The message of climate fatalism is just as wrong as the worst climate deniers. It is absurd to claim that it’s “too late” to stop climate change. We know for sure that it is possible to prevent the release of greenhouse gases. The atmosphere heats in response to the volume of greenhouse gases we pump into it. The less we add, the less the heating. If you accept the basic science explaining how we make things worse, you must accept the basic science of how we stop making things worse. It is an almost weirdly linear relationship. We also know that the collective policy, technology and activism efforts of our entire species since the 1990s have resulted in a noticeable reduction in reliance on burning fossil fuels, compared to the parallel universe in which we did nothing at all. You can see this when you view the world’s carbon emissions compared to the spaghetti spread of scenarios published many years ago. We have avoided both the worst- and best-case scenarios, and have ended up somewhere in the middle. This recent study found implemented policies to date likely reduced global emissions by “several billion tons of [carbon dioxide equivalent] per year compared to a world without mitigation policies”, equivalent to between 4% and 15% of 2020’s total global emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Working Group Three report dedicates several pages to this, saying, “There is robust evidence with a high level of agreement that mitigation policies have had a discernible impact on emissions.”

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Donald Trump’s election feels reminiscent of the first year of COVID-19. A deep blanket of anxiety and instability is impacting the US and countries with close ties. In this haze, fatalists find new purchase. Whatever Suzuki’s intentions, his comments fuel real and serious feelings of helplessness and despair.  There is danger in fatalism that goes well beyond creating dejection and justifying inaction. The broad feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are a boon to both authoritarian, fascist governments and the fossil fuel industry, both of which rely on few realising how brittle their grip on power is. There are direct links between “doomer” communities and increasingly explicit agreement with eco-fascist elements. One prominent self-described “doomer” recently described themselves as an “eco-Nazi”: “The one and only solution to the problem — the FINAL solution — is to make Planet Earth a human-free zone.” Gaming social media algorithms to loudly reinforce the physical terror of climate impacts and then insisting there’s nothing we can do to stop those impacts feels pretty sinister to me.

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remembers a constant form 

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