Talk from scientist and activist #AaronThierry (DrDr - career shift from Earth Systems to social sciences). Considering 'Emergency' framing as ethical practice; the painful #Cassandra condition as structural rather than psychotic, and 'Emergency' itself as a structure that permits, or even requires, activism for change.
How soon does 'neutrality' equal complicity? #SciComm #ClimateandnatureEmergency
https://youtu.be/nwyTO4rg-Os
Aaron Thierry 'Cassandra's Children: Scientific Responsibility in an Era of Climate Emergency

YouTube
"Structural neglect, not personal behaviour, underlies the distribution of harm" - #AaronThierry on climate necropolitics
https://theconversation.com/preventable-deaths-in-a-warming-world-how-politics-shapes-who-lives-and-who-dies-273132
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies

Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

The Conversation
Dr. Aaron Thierry (@thierryaaron.bsky.social)

I was born in 1986, when NASA first produced this classic depiction of the Earth-system & its interactions. Since then there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of humankind's place in the planetary system. This thread looks at how our understanding has changed during my lifetime...🧵

Bluesky Social
In Wales, we’re one more flood away from another disaster like Aberfan

It is only a matter of time before a mountainside is brought down. We need climate adaptation help – and we need it now, says climate expert Aaron Thierry

The Guardian