bridgetmck
Ian Hunt@andrewgregory on the effects of pollution and climate breakdown on children -- intervention by Dr Camilla Kingdon of Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health. “Children breathe faster, so they inhale more airborne toxins in proportion to their weight than adults exposed to the same amount of air pollution. As such, they are especially vulnerable to air pollution, which can lead to asthma in childhood, and lifelong health issues.” '#children #pollution #EverydayEcocide https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/21/children-at-existential-risk-from-climate-crisis-uks-top-paediatrician-says?fbclid=IwAR3S03YxUpKKlOq_fVg6j75COK2ofzQEe_9i-qzGBKTWEpCXDNl2XjUePpQ
@pvonhellermannn That's #EverydayEcocide Have you watched You Are What You Eat: The Twin Experiment on Netflix? Hopefully it should counter some of this pro-meat advertising.
So I went to see Barbie. And I loved it. Can we have a subversive, witty, spectacular film like that that’s squarely about #EverydayEcocide next please? (I started this as a response to the #EverydaySexism collecting / hashtag project in 2016)
@SusiArnott The fact that editors consider this minor encounter with marine algae (kelp exposed to air smells, who knew!) 'a story' is a part of #EverydayEcocide that normalises hierarchies of understanding from a solely human perspective
@Biodiversity I’ve shared this in the project I run, collecting examples of #EverydayEcocide - about the cultures, media & practices that bracket out or diminish biodiversity, nature and climate change. Thanks for highlighting.
Brilliant piece from Rebecca Solnit on how we need stories to resist the denialist / delayist #everydayecocide stories. We need stories with historical imagination, with systemic awareness, with clarity around justice, that show people working collectively, that show a multiplicity of solutions not single silver bullets... https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/12/rebecca-solnit-climate-crisis-popular-imagination-why-we-need-new-stories
@Sustainable2050 This is #EverydayEcocide (In Climate Museum UK we collect incidents of things like this, currently on Birdsite & FB, since 2016. We should seed this hashtag here too.)
@bridgetmck I am finding it hard to work out where and how to use political energies right now, to shift thinking on #EverydayEcocide or elsewhere. My instinct is still that these gatherings (COP and others) matter and, depressing as the compromises are, they need to be logged and at least described. I am reading, now about #CoP19 -- found this good https://chinadialogueocean.net/en/conservation/explainer-why-cites-matters-for-marine-species/ but feel increasingly in need of a local focus for political work, for people and for #bioabundance
And in my professional world, which is all about environment / climate & culture & learning, nobody has mentioned COP15. I talked about it in 2020 & 2021, each time it was postponed. Trying to weave it into our Climate COP response while giving it due attention for its own sake. It feels part of #EverydayEcocide that we neglect it.