Pauline von Hellermann

Environmental Anthropologist at Goldsmiths University, London

#Regenerative #Anthropology, #PoliticalEcology #HistoricalEcology #Palmoil #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #ClimateDiary #Commoning #Solarpunk

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2024-11-09 16:48:57

#ClimateDiary Good on Papua New Guinea!
“The last three Cop meetings have gone around in circles, producing no tangible results for small island states. #Cop29 will be no different, so Papua New Guinea will not participate at the political level,” Tckatchenko said.
The article says climate activists are worried for PNG, but the message is so strong and important. Let’s help PNG by amplifying their voice and reasons for pulling out!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/png-cop29-papua-new-guinea-un-climate-summit
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2024-07-31 05:05:08

#ClimateDiary Wildfire smoke may be worse for brain health than other air pollution, dementia research finds
“The study found the odds of a new dementia diagnosis increased about 21% for every 1 microgram increase in the concentration of wildfire particles.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/wildfire-smoke-may-be-worse-for-brain-health-than-other-air-pollution-dementia-research-finds

2024-06-17 18:12:18

It’s sort of a taboo to mention but so many people who set up accounts here in Nov/Dec 2022 never really used them and gradually all retreated again. Especially, people with established profiles & followers elsewhere. Like, so often when i am happy to discover someone i know elsewhere here on Mastodon they only did a few posts and nothing in 437 days or something. I know we all like Mastodon exactly as it is, but it’s sad so many have given up and we should maybe talk about reasons. IDK.

2024-06-02 08:22:16

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#ClimateDiary where i really want to share this graph is in family, friend, neighbourhood, etc WhatsApp groups. Which is what I used to do, 2019-2023. I know, in theory i could just post. But in practice it really does become impossible to keep on doing it for 5 years when the messaging from everyone is clear: we don’t want to hear; you’ve told us before. Deathly silence, every time.

2024-06-02 08:12:56

#ClimateDiary Yep, this is where we are at.
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2024-05-21 15:48:48

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@npub1jq9…jqnl I just saw that 5min ago! Such fantastic news. He gave a great talk here in Eastbourne a few weeks ago

2024-05-17 09:55:39

Sums up everything #Gaza #AI #ChatGPT #Racism
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2024-05-16 10:27:26

#ClimateDiary
As the French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe/112450271218082604

2024-04-23 17:49:19

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 and you csn listen to them whilst doing boring housework! I love podcasts too.

2024-03-17 17:59:18

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@npub1qzc…yetl me too, and i say this as a former colleague and otherwise fan of Graeber. @npub1jq9…jqnl colleagues wrote a critique if you are interested

2024-03-12 07:31:37

#ClimateDiary
“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
#massachusetts #CoastalErosion
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar500k-dune-designed-to-protect-massachusetts-homes-last-just-3-days

2024-02-16 07:33:50

Severe hunger in Nigeria
One year on from Tinubu winning elections, things are tougher than ever for millions in Nigeria. It is now ranked the 16th most hungry country in the world. Too much suffering.
(And yes i put CW on this, as image is upsetting. But also thinking about exactly whose sensibilities we protect and why, and about how Africa is just not in the news here in West, and what impact that has for people there).
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/02/severe-hunger-in-nigeria/

2024-01-18 07:24:47

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1g0t…tvm4 of course! And don’t worry, it’s not all like that, just a lot of it. But myself and many others do do engaged anthropology and we have exactly these conversations all the time.
Just wanted to run with the idea of AI being particularly unrecognisable in these self-referential, jargoned fields!

2024-01-18 07:16:05

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1g0t…tvm4
This certainly applies to #Anthropology! I can just imagine, once thingns like made up references are smoothed out, noone being able to detect whether an anthropology piece is AI or not, because it’s all built on the same principles of self-referential jargon that AI uses

2024-01-16 17:45:54

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@npub1c2x…w0nm Thank you for sharing your post here! I love the Parable of the Sower, and Lauren herself. One of those rare books that you come back to and think of all the time, years after reading it

2024-01-03 17:23:12

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@npub1c2x…w0nm thank you for sharing this on #ClimateDiary! Really nice to read in more depth what #TinyHouse living involves

2023-11-24 11:14:13

Oh this is just wonderful. Read this and listen to Paul playing Claire de Lune to an 80 year old elephant and the world feels better #Piano #Elephants #Music
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/24/experience-i-play-piano-for-rescued-elephants
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2023-11-08 21:30:55

#ClimateDiary What have we done
“Without insects, our planet will not be able to survive”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/species-at-risk-extinction-doubles-to-2-million-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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2023-10-02 06:52:10

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1g0t…tvm4 so so true and put so well by you here

2023-10-02 06:02:30

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 yes! i found myself thinking “at least Boris Johnson stuck to environmental policies” the other day… then: how on earth did i get to that point

2023-09-30 16:25:55

Just finished #Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler. So good!
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2023-09-21 08:47:09

Just have to say this one more time: the whole #Twitter #X thing continues to profoundly upset me. I left in Oct/Nov ‘22 and have been very happy here, but: i had a really good Twitter community of #ClimateActivists and academics and lost it all, because hardly anyone came here. And i do not understand how they are ALL continuing to use an ever more overtly fascist platform, along with majority. The very people who i thought were the good, critical ones. I know i shd accept it but struggle.

2023-08-19 18:38:35

#ClimateDiary OK, confession. After a two months long persuasion campaign by OH I relented and now in #California for two weeks. Combining work meetings, research, conference, family/friends visits and family holiday, but still acutely aware of #Hypocrisy and massive #ClimateGuilt. Especially when yesterday on the plane we saw the #Canada #Wildfires, whilst contributing directly ourselves. What are we doing
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2023-08-13 19:16:39

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@npub1y98…gke7 heute habe ich ganz besonders schlimme #Solastalgie - und kann wie immer mit niemandem drueber sprechen, da man ja nicht immer Traurigkeit verbreiten will. Daher freue ich mich ueber deinen post, es ist immer ein Trost, wenn man weiss, dass es anderen - natuerlich - ganz genauso geht. #Maui

2023-07-31 10:07:10

I don’t know what I find more depressing: the descend of #Twitter into an ever more blatantly fascist tool, or the fact that millions of good people (including activists, intellectuals) still merrily use it. If not the #X, what WILL put them off?

2023-07-15 07:44:06

#ClimateDiary have been seeing the “people need #hope to get engage in #ClimateAction” argument quite a lot recently, and it’s made me reflect.
For me, hope doesn’t actually come into it. I don’t care whether we have “hope” or not. For me it’s anger, fear, responsibility, guilt, and perhaos also (just to add one positive one) a growing sense of personal empowerment that drive me to try everything i can. These are all very strongly motivating emotions too

2023-06-20 06:30:37

I am sorry but i absolutely refuse to follow live updates or take any interest in what happens to three #Billionaire tourists or whatever on a luxury thrill-seeking, super-expensive, super-unnecessary fun thing, when over 500 people (including many children) are feared dead after #Tragedy in Mediterranean and we never had live coverage or frontpage news on it. (And yes of course this is sad too but the difference in concern is just so wrong)
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