lisaschipper.bsky.social
Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social• Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social• Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social•IPCC AR6 CLA•she/her/Du•Servant to 4 rescue 🐈⬛ from 3 continents•🇸🇪
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Her doctoral work is on locally-led adaptation, looking at experiences in Ghana and Benin. No publications yet...but stay tuned! She is funded by @daadworldwide.bsky.social for her doctoral work at @giubresearch.bsky.social.
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Let’s chat!
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Blue is cool
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She is on fire and so correct.
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I needed that laugh, thanks. 😂
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Summary - it's not really that complicated - there is a lot of racism and fear and bizarre interest in dodgy eugenics ideas and if we want to take care of the coming generations, maybe we need to think about their quality of life, about equity and justice, and not destroy their futures.
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Interesting: a study in Hungary showed that women are more concerned with the future of their children than the carbon footprint of their (potential) children. We would rather focus on our offspring than on, for instance, other people’s offspring. (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)
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So the question of whether we should increase our birthrates in Europe, US, Australia, Japan etc in my view is in fact a morally offensive question to ask, from a climate point of view. Clearly the world does not need more high emitting bullies....but also, what sort of future would they have?
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And certainly, those who have suffered the most do not deserve to die. Or suffer. Remember the recent study that said that high income people disproportionately contribute to climate extremes. 2/3 or warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% of people. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I got caught up in a confusing argument here, because I initially said that I question whether humans have a moral right to be on the planet, given what we have done to it, and that I don't really see the problem if we die out. HOWEVER, this is not the same as saying that anyone deserves to die.
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We now have a new movement (well, it has recently gained attention but has been around for some 50 years) - (pro)natalism. It promotes childbirth, but once again has racist undertones (in some cases more overt) suggesting that 'better' people should populate the planet, and the rest can perish.
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Here I need to underscore that part of the reason that the arguments about overpopulation were/are wrong is because they are deeply rooted in racist views. So the white people were OK to take over everything but not anyone else. This is fundamentally incorrect, but again, based on ideology and bias.
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The Population Bomb and esp. Garrett Hardin's essay The Tragedy of the Commons argued that too many people are bad and will result in extreme hunger, resource deficiency etc. They were both wrong in a way. But the point is not that people are harmless - the point is about WHO those people are.
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...while my argument was basically that it is essentially wrong for us to promote higher birthrates in the Global North because we are not serving the planet and other people well, it was a bit obscured by the arguments made by others in the past concerned about overpopulation's impact on Earth.
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Very handsome indeed. One eye always gives them a special look! I also have a black kitty from California. At first I was not convinced by her lack of colours (we also have two rescue tabbies) but now I love her monochrome face.
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He’s confused about what it means to be vegetarian.
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Souvlaki - he's adopted from Greece 😂
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The sweetest. And he's completely deaf and only has one eye! A little rescue from Greece. Feisty and loving and so playful (he's only 2,5).
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He’s adopted from Greece so he probably likes it hot. (We had not used the grill btw.)
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Hi Milica - could you please email me and I can help with this? I am unable to send you a message
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Ooof. Poor Magnum!
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Checking on this
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Checking on this
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haha yes it's just to make us look like we are pro chefs but it's actually a cat seat.
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little king 👑
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Haha 🎯
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Haha. Yes in Bonn, Germany. Even here!
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Danger indeed. Only for them though
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I mean someone could get a bubble in their eye and go blind.
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Jag kan inte längre försvara henne.
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eek. this is just depressing
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En desperat taktik att försöka ge sig själva mening - annars skulle de bara försvinna i sin brist på betydelse och sitt saknande värde för världen...