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Deb ChachraA friend pointed me to a TED talk by a Swedish architect who proposed a massive environmental intervention in Africa -- using bacteria to fix Saharan sand in place to create a 'wall' and so halt desertification -- while freely admitting that he didn't know any of the details and it made me realise: neocolonialism driven by anthropogenic climate change is really going to be a thing.
Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭@debcha see also: "reforestation" projects in savannah biomes 🤦♀️💀
Alexander Knochel@debcha That's basically your TED talk ;)
@quantensalat Yeah, no, *this* is my TED talk. https://comment.org/care-at-scale/
greasiest computer nerd 🇧🇷@debcha it makes sense that the capitalists are not too concerned about climate change. in fact, it feels like they see it as an opportunity to gain even more power exactly because of shit like that
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AnitaH2@debcha
Wow. What could possibly go wrong...😅
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Also:
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/21/how-colonialism-spawned-and-continues-to-exacerbate-the-climate-crisis/
Wow. What could possibly go wrong...😅
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Also:
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/21/how-colonialism-spawned-and-continues-to-exacerbate-the-climate-crisis/
mk30@debcha it's already a thing. as long as would-be planet managers see the land as just something they can mess with & use for whatever purpose they see fit (instead of seeing themselves as part of a living ecosystem that deserves respect, in which they should only make changes in small & incremental steps, observing results, changing course, etc.), they're going to keep replicating colonial patterns.