Bangladesh en de klimaatadaptatie https://sargasso.nl/bangladesh-en-de-klimaatadaptatie/ #klimaatadaptatie #AmitavGosh #Bangladesh #Algemeen #Politiek #COP30

Dit was een prettige, bevreemdende zitting. #amitavgosh werd uitgebreid geëerd en trakteerde ons erna op wat je volgens mij een #fairbeating kunt noemen. In een paleis dat is gefinancierd van de genocide waar hij aandacht voor vraagt krijgt hij de #erasmusprijs van een koning wiens familie er schathemeltjerijk mee geworden is. Hij spaarde niemand, hield niet in én schoffeerde niemand. Dat vond ik een kunststukje. In krankzinnige tijden dondert het van de paradoxen.

> Customs duties on tea — of up to 125 percent — amounted to nearly a tenth of Britain’s revenue, bankrolling its wars. Yet China required little from Britain apart from payment in silver, which the nation found increasingly inconvenient to source. Britain realized it could solve this “balance of trade problem” by increasing its Indian colonies’ “small but brisk” opium trade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/books/review/smoke-and-ashes-amitav-ghosh.html
#DeliaFalconer on #TeaTrade in #SmokeAndAshes
#AmitavGosh #BritainAndChina #OpiumTrade

> The dominant approach in.. [#ClimateEthics] is again posited on rational actors, freely pursuing their own interests. A philosopher of this tradition, in responding to the argument that the moral imperative of climate change comes from the need to save the millions of lives in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, might well quote #DavidHume: ‘’Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.’
#AmitavGosh's #GreatDerangement and #Western #YangChu

Sewers in London:
> ... it’s really interested me to try to understand why people decided to do it. After all, it was going to be to their financial detriment, it was a massive project with uncertain long-term outcomes, but people did it. And the reason, I think, after reading extensively.. it was done was just that people felt it was the right thing to do.
https://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/23/we_are_now_in_the_danger
#TimothyFlannery parallels #Cholera and #ClimateChaos #GlobalWarming found thanks to #AmitavGosh #GreatDerangment