Climate Update

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

We're living through a crisis of colonialism. Imagine if we rolled up our sleeves instead of pointed our fingers? – Jessica Hernandez is an indigenous climate scientist and author of Growing Papaya Trees. Her work reveals that the roots of our planetary crisis lies in the violence of colonialism and neo-colonialism.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Gewinne aus Kohleprojekten im globalen Süden fließen in den Norden – auf den Folgen bleiben die Länder sitzen. Doch immer mehr Menschen vor Ort wehren sich.

KULTUR & BILDUNG

This is the message of this week’s guest, Aboriginal scholar and author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In his explanation of the importance of learning through living, and living with learning, Tyson points to the how the discourse around decolonisation has granted expertise based on identity rather than experience. He highlights how indigenous thinking is fundamentally consensus building, mirroring the Western scientific method, and warns that neoliberal thinking has infected what should have been a radical transformation, creating individuals who consider themselves fully contained “little corporations”.

BÜCHER

Der Historiker Sunil Amrith erzählt in «Brennende Erde», wie die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten versuchen, sich die Natur untertan zu machen. Sein wichtiges Buch ist ein Weckruf.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Der Ausbau grüner Technologien folge neokolonialen Mustern, schreiben die Autor:innen einer neuen Studie der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Anhand von sechs Fallstudien skizzieren sie die Rolle Deutschlands bei der globalen Rohstoffausbeutung.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Vom Kolonialismus führt ein breiter Weg zur Klimaungerechtigkeit. Dass heute eine Klimakatastrophe die Menschen in Kamerun bedroht, liegt wesentlich in der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft vor über hundert Jahren begründet.

KULTUR & BILDUNG

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?

BÜCHER

In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming. Hi, I’m Paige Vega, Vox’s climate editor.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Addressing climate justice calls for a “fundamental, decolonial constitutional change”, according to a new study published in Climate Policy.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Mining companies have been offered a path to sustainability but few are taking it – Indigenous people need to be at the table demanding change

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK. URSACHEN

Friederike Otto hält den Kampf gegen Sexismus, Rassismus und Ungerechtigkeit wichtiger als die Senkung von CO₂-Emissionen. Warum?

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Uno dei temi sul tavolo della Cop28 di Dubai è l’implementazione del fondo loss and damage.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

URSACHEN

The UK is responsible for nearly twice as much global warming as previously thought, due to its colonial history, Carbon Brief analysis shows.

BEWEGUNG

“From the 1963 up until today, they can't kill our ideology. They can't kill our philosophy. They can’t kill our fight. Because we believe what we fight for. We fight for our right, freedom, dignity, and truth.

World Indigenous leaders meeting this week at an annual UN summit have warned that the west’s climate strategy risks the exploitation of Indigenous territories, resources and people.

BÜCHER

Podcast mit Buchautor und Historiker Milo Probst.

In this episode we focus on land grabs and dispossession by the conservation sector in the present day and hear how local people and those from far away confront this injustice.  Our first guest is Yannick Ndoinyo, a Maasai community leader from Tanzania, who is also a conservation biologist.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Climate activism in the United States and Europe is typically framed as sacrifice for the sake of future generations: We must consume less now to extend the expiration date on human civilization as we know it.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Ein Anruf von Bundeskanzler Scholz beim kolumbianischen Präsidenten soll dazu geführt haben, dass eine umstrittene Kohlegrube nun wegen deutscher Importe erweitert wird. Nach Kontraste-Recherchen stößt das in der Grünen-Fraktion auf harte Kritik.

Daniel Speich-Chassé, né en 1969, est professeur d'histoire globale à l'Université de Lucerne et membre du conseil scientifique de l'Initiative pour les glaciers, pour laquelle il est l'un des tout premiers contributeurs depuis 2016.

Daniel Speich-Chassé, Jahrgang 1969, ist Professor für Globalgeschichte an der Universität Luzern und Mitglied im wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Gletscher-Initiative, für die er sich als einer der allerersten Mitstreiter seit 2016 engagiert.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Activists pushing for global reparations for colonialism and slavery are often accused of asking for the politically impossible. At the international scale, however, reparations are more plausible than one might think.

KULTUR & BILDUNG

Dover Priory, 16 November 1535: at a modest monastic establishment on the edge of one of England’s main working ports, the nearest to the continent of Europe, the abbot signs a ‘deed of surrender’, turning over the establishment and all its property from the Church to the king.