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Feeling defeated? These solutions fight climate change and empower people. A couple months ago, I wrote about the tepid approach scientists insist on taking when communicating climate change dangers.

Feeling defeated? These solutions fight climate change and empower people

They keep taking this undashing, New Jay Z #factsonly approach to their messaging instead of taking it back to the Old-Jay-Z and letting the song cry. Others caught this, including Stephanie Bernhard, who’s written about climate for blogs like The New Inquiry and Salon, and called it out in her review of Kristin Ohlson’s book on “no-till farming,” The Soil Will Save Us, in the May 5 edition of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Here’s what she wrote: Climate writers are actually doing a decent job at terrifying the public and convincing them that life as we know it will change dramatically. But a lot of people in this country are … paralyzed by the problem’s magnitude and complexity. Bernhard has a point here, but she makes a necessary pivot. These are not trivial cases. Take for example the issue of extreme heat islands, which both IPCC reports and the U.S. Satirical film targets 'development' for tribes. In the satirical animation 'There You Go!

Satirical film targets 'development' for tribes

', development experts claim to bring 'sustainable development' to an imaginary tribe. Instead, they bring destruction. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival A new film launched today by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, takes a satirical look at how tribes are often destroyed in the name of ‘development’. The 2-minute animation ‘There You Go!’ In the short film, based on a comic book by author Oren Ginzburg, development experts claim they want to bring ‘sustainable development’ to an imaginary forest-dwelling tribe – who end up destitute, in a slum.

There You Go! ‘There You Go!’ ‘What kind of development is it when people lead shorter lives than before?’ ‘There You Go!’ One Mursi man told Survival, ‘We are waiting to die. Ethiopia is forcibly resettling 200,000 tribal people in the Lower Omo Valley in the name of giving them ‘a modern life’. © Alison M Jones/danitadelimont.com Notes to editors: Share this news story. Satirical film targets 'development' for tribes. Incredible. J'agis Pour La Nature: plateforme nationale du bénévolat nature.

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