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The ruling class of the West & Global North knows that food & resource scarcities & unlivable conditions leading to mass migrations & geopolitical turmoil are inevitable & imminent. They know full well that there is no way...
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Aashis Joshi
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Aashis Joshi
@aashisjo
Decolonization and justice in the age of climate and biosphere breakdown 🇵🇸 🌏 When faced with our own destruction, we act against reason
Joined May 2021
- On April 10, 1948 Albert Einstein called Israelis terrorists and criminals.
- Israel should be located in Germany, not Palestine. This is my two-state solution.
- We must BDS Israel even if there's a ceasefire. What they've done--for the past 15 months and since 1947--is unforgivable. Israeli leaders and soldiers must face trial and punishment. We must never give up the cause of justice for and liberation of Palestinians.
- Spring has disappeared from South Asia. Soon we're going to suffer crop failures, famine, and mass migrations due to lack of water and intolerable heat. Our political leaders in the region are clueless, and our societies are ill-informed and unprepared, including psychologically.Heat waves are hitting India early, with a 38°C forecast already, and it is still only February! Climate change is driving an exponential rise in extreme heat exposure worldwide. Heat-related deaths for over-65s are up 85% from 2004—an incredible rise.
- South Asia is sleepwalking towards climate catastrophe. It's the highest populated & among the most climate change vulnerable regions in the world, yet there's hardly any public awareness or policy discussions on the unlivable conditions, crop failures & mass migrations to come.The boiling continues in #India. Millions have no access to air conditioning, and water supplies in many regions are being stretched. A global 2C increase will make many parts of this region #uninhabitable during the #summer months. #Adaptation and #mitigation are urgent.
- I call upon Global South scholars & researchers to reconsider our presence in Western academia. By now it is abundantly clear that Western nations & institutions incl. universities are fully committed to maintaining their colonialist domination over the world, at any cost. 1/
- Trump has ordered huge swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber. An ecocidal and genocidal empire. Never was there a more urgent time to organize mass action in the US against the US in defense of the climate, forests, ecosystems, and indigenous people everywhere.
- If Kamala Harris wins this election it will set a dangerous precedent because the Democratic Party & the ruling class of the US & the West will know that they can get away with the most evil atrocities by always dangling the threat of a “greater evil”. 1/
- Where are all the bats?? They’re dead. Let’s not feign innocence & blame the rain. *WE* wiped out insects & starved them. And unless we end our overconsumption & extractive relationship with nature, we will wipe out a lot more life from an already depleted biosphere.
Where are all the bats? – alarm as numbers fall in England theguardian.com/environment/ar… - To those who are calling for @DrJillStein to drop out: Do you really think that the people who have decided to vote for her will give their vote to Kamala Harris even if she drops out? You don't get it, do you? Idiots.
- In just six years (2016-2021), we've consumed over 75% of what we did over the 20th century. To address our environmental impacts we need cultural & political innovation much more than technological innovation.
- This turns my stomach. Is there a more jarring image that captures the horror of Zionism, white supremacism, and Western imperialism?
- The speed at which the impacts of climate and ecological breakdown are playing out far exceeds what scientists had anticipated. The public, however, is still woefully unaware of how quickly and irreversibly the biophysical basis of our lives and societies is unraveling. 1/
