@breadandcircuses

Since this article mentions "Anthropocene" I thought it would be a good time to boost this piece again to clarify were the real blame lies:

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/21/how-colonialism-spawned-and-continues-to-exacerbate-the-climate-crisis/

"To date, researchers have mentioned the Anthropocene Epoch as the latest geological period in more than 1,300 scientific papers. While the scientific community has been debating over which year the Anthropocene Epoch began, several Indigenous and Black scholars have shot back against the term.

"The problem, some scholars say, is that the term assumes the climate crisis is caused by universal human nature, rather than the actions of a minority of colonialists, capitalists, and patriarchs. And the implication that the Earth was stable until around 1950, when the ‘Anthropocene’ supposedly began, denies the history of people who have been exploited by those systems for centuries.

"Indigenous scholars have further addressed how the term stands for colonialist ideologies that sever the deep ties and interconnections between humans, plants, animals, and the soil.

“Instead of treating the Earth like a precious entity that gives us life, Western colonial legacies operate within a paradigm that assumes they can extract its natural resources as much as they want, and the Earth will regenerate itself,” said Hadeel Assali, a lecturer and postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Science and Society, a Columbia Climate School affiliate."

#capitalism #colonialism #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis

https://archive.org/details/cameroun-autopsie-dune-independance

Cameroun: Autopsie d'une Indépendance (English Subtitles) by Gaëlle Le Roy; Valérie Osouf

Topics
#UniondespopulationsduCameroun, #UPC, #Cameroun, #Kamerun, #Cameroon, #RevolutionaryNationalism, #AntiColonialism, #FrenchColonialism, #AntiImperialism, #GuerillaWarfare, #SocialMovements, #FrenchImperialism, #counterinsurgency, #genocide, #antiblackness, #françafrique, #mouvementdelibérationnationale, #ArméedelibérationnationaleduKamerun, #luttearmée, #néocolonialismefrançais, #Warcrimes, #politicalassassinations, #crimesfrancaisenafrique

Version containing english subtitles (Cannot find the source). Some mistranslations, as "resistance" should be "maquis".