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HeavenlyPossum Aug 10, 2023

I was thinking to myself, “when will the effects of climate change get so bad that they provoke revolution” but then it occurred to me: they already did. Just in the wrong direction.

Syrians fled a civil war driven by the worst drought in a thousand years and Europe responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Central Americans fled rising temperatures that are killing agricultural workers and the U.S. responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Russia just happens to be in a war for control of some of the world’s best farmland.

Sudan is in the middle of a civil war and Niger just had its umpteenth coup.

Reactionaries are *already* at war with us over climate change. It’s only going to get worse as the world gets hotter.

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szakib Aug 11, 2023

@HeavenlyPossum https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/10/protests-erupt-in-dagestan-after-heat-wave-triggers-rolling-blackouts-governor-warns-such-forms-of-dialogue-will-be-stemmed-in-future

Protests erupt in Dagestan after heat wave triggers rolling blackouts. Governor warns ‘such forms of dialogue’ will be ‘stemmed’ in future. — Meduza

Late on August 9, Makhachkala residents blocked one of the city’s main streets in protest against the authorities’ inaction with regard to power outages in the capital of Dagestan. Some of the protesters said their homes had been without electricity for three days, and no help was coming.

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szakib

@HeavenlyPossum And it continues https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/14/water-supply-crisis-in-dagestan-pushes-protesters-to-block-federal-highway

Water supply crisis in Dagestan pushes protesters to block federal highway — Meduza

Dagestan’s ongoing utilities crisis saw another major protest on Sunday night. The residents of Karaman-2, a settlement outside of the region’s capital Makhachkala, blocked the federal Makhachkala–Astrakhan highway, trying to draw attention to the dire water-supply situation in the area.

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