Pauline von Hellermann / is on Nostr

Environmental Anthropologist at Goldsmiths University, London

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

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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.

2024-01-18 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

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

2023-09-21 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