Regenerative Anthropology and/as Climate Action #ClimateDiary; writing book about palm oil; political and historical ecology, climate justice, commoning #GreenParty Avatar: a small person in a raincoat in a mirror with metal loops with LED lights swirling in front. This is the artwork “Sedibeng, It Comes with Rain” by Dineo Seshee Bopape, in Towner Gallery in Eastbourne Background: a palm oil mill in North Sumatra, in a luscious green landscape.
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Last Notes npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann #ClimateDiary We had a terrible thunderstorm here last night, with several lightning strikes really close to us - and this house 1.2m away was struck and caught fire. Hardly anyone has lightning/earthing rods in the UK. We don’t, I think! Meanwhile worrying about my 83yo mother in 40°C Berlin. She is ok I think but no fans or AC. We are all so unprepared. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8dq7wg3wo npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Thinking about “civicmindedness”: thinking and acting beyond your private life and work. Protesting, volunteering, participating in local politics, etc. How some people have it and others don’t. How our whole Western individualist value system (more so now than even 30 years ago) works to erode it, but how important it actually is, in a deep, psychological way even. We are all part of communities and need to feel it. (feeling local election U-turn! #GreenParty) #CivicMindedness #Personhood npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann #ClimateDiary. I am marking and marking - at the moment, blogs students wrote for Urban Political Ecology. This final sentence just now is so good I have to share it here: “The next time you are walking through a city on a hot day, do not just look for a tree. Ask yourself why it was planted there, who is allowed to sit under it, and who is still standing out in the sun.” npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann I have nothing original or insightful to add but also don’t want to just stay silent when the US attacks its third country this holiday season (Nigeria and Iran before). The attack on #Venezuela is a bloody coup, breaking all international law. It should be condemned by all other leaders but many (Starmer) will not do that, of course. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/830/582/525/091/259/original/f253ff9f148427a5.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621 npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann #ClimateDiary more worrying research “We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before,” explains Antonio Turiel, ICM-CSIC researcher and co-author of the study. “While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.” https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/793/695/699/072/239/original/41b770893e2760d8.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7. This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview. Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little. https://www.ijvcanada.org/in-the-week-before-october-7-2023-ijv-factsheet/ npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Most people across 24 surveyed countries have negative views of Israel and Netanyahu https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-people-across-24-surveyed-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-netanyahu/ https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/782/804/504/794/473/original/bd4ad8f560587335.png npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann URGENT: The proscription of #PalestineAction is being voted on in the UK parliament today. Please write to your MP now and urge them to vote against it! I just did (in btw making packed lunch, assembling school clothes etc, so a bit rushed) . You can just click here #Gaza #UKpolitics 1/2 https://www.writetothem.com/ https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/782/485/675/073/827/original/ec19ff9c69a9cb47.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Just do want to say briefly that Bob Vylan saying “Death to the IDF” was an important, strategic and, yes, brave thing to do. Of course it pushed the limit of what is acceptable, was shocking to hear at Glastonbury (i was shocked!), but that was the point. He single-handedly shifted the Overton Window on what is said. And he was right: The IDF is a violent war organisation that kills unarmed civilians on a daily basis and should indeed come to an end. We all know this, actually. #Gaza https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/770/900/840/287/923/original/0b39ebab01c75499.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Very proud of my husband James Hampshire, who received the Bernard Crick prize this evening (at the Orwell Prize Ceremony) for an article in Political Quarterly on UK immigration policy since Brexit. Even more proud that he wore a #PalestineAction T-shirt and warned against the rise of authoritarianism and appeasing the far right, at home and abroad. George Orwell would have approved, I am sure! #Gaza https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/746/245/112/448/260/original/1fb7fe4f3a6caa1f.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann There are just too many awful things happening in the world, all at once. And in between everything else, the horrors in #Gaza go on and on. Each of these deaths a total tragedy. Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/360/255/130/549/242/original/4da6ead410c2be1e.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann Says it all, really https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/711/917/767/599/228/original/03d695f4e8585893.jpeg npub1p99uvr2yxrvsqcutdl88qpyfrte4p93vdj2kvsdjhup7c42r7vzsrld43u Pauline von Hellermann How is it even possible that this is happening during #Christmas and we here in Europe just get on with celebrating. Another case of our sense of normality being radically shifted.A year ago this headline would have seemed awful, impossible to anyone; but now this is where we are at. #Gaza https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/639/510/600/161/635/original/8b6be8fd01d6df0d.jpeg