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Pauline von Hellermann

#ClimateDiary My daughter drew this hour glass and stuck it on her window a few years ago, at the height of my and her climate activism, with @parents4future and all.

Now it’s all faded, and in many ways time has already run out. 1/2

Photo of an hour glass drawn on white paper stuck with cello tape on a window. Garden in background.
7 September at 11:31 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#ClimateDiary 2/2 I have been struggling in recent months with feeling really hope- and helpless regarding climate action (and much else). But now feel that there is also strength in this realisation, so much still that we can do for each other and the world even when the bigger picture is incredibly bleak. Then yesterday listened to @DarkOptimism talking about #DarkOptimism - and this term captures it perfectly. Thank you, Shaun!

ecogather.sterlingcollege.edu/

7 September at 17:08 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

Yesterday The Lancet published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. #Gaza

thelancet.com/journals/lancet/

8 July at 9:48 | Open on mastodon.green
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Andrew Helwer

@pvonhellermannn @carkner to be clear (I agree things are dire) this is an estimate of future deaths from indirect causes:

>Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases.

>In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

@pvonhellermannn @carkner to be clear (I agree things are dire) this is an estimate of future deaths from indirect causes:

>Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases.

8 July at 12:09 | Open on discuss.systems
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@pvonhellermannn Media: "Biden is Old, Fascism must prevail!"

8 July at 14:05 | Open on mastodon.social
Canadian Crone
Pauline von Hellermann
Pauline von Hellermann

#ClimateDiary where i really want to share this graph is in family, friend, neighbourhood, etc WhatsApp groups. Which is what I used to do, 2019-2023. I know, in theory i could just post. But in practice it really does become impossible to keep on doing it for 5 years when the messaging from everyone is clear: we don’t want to hear; you’ve told us before. Deathly silence, every time.

2 June at 8:22 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

Screenshot of the top of this article
6 March at 9:06 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the declaration was a response to Nazi atrocities and presents the foundational principles for human rights across the world.

Never has it been more important to remind ourselves of their existence and validity.

I invite you to read and share them today! A brief 🧵 1/n

#HumanRights #UDHR #NeverAgain #NieWieder #Gaza
#UN

un.org/en/about-us/universal-d

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the declaration was a response to Nazi atrocities and presents the foundational principles for human rights across the world.

Never has it been more important to remind ourselves of their existence and validity.

Black and white photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt holding up a large printed out sheet of the Declaration of Human Rights. She is holding it to her left side, looking on it herself, face in profile. Taken on 10th December 1948
10 Dec 2023 at 4:26 | Open on mastodon.green
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mercurial idiot

@pvonhellermannn wow... looking at just the first few it sounds so hopeful, but for almost each and every single one I can give an example of how it was disregarded at at least one point in the last decade.

10 Dec 2023 at 17:49 | Open on fosstodon.org
Nessuno

@pvonhellermannn Thanks for sharing, it's always important to remember.

10 Dec 2023 at 20:19 | Open on mastodon.uno
Angua's Back :disability_pride:

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

A timely reminder of one of the VERY FEW decent things the UN has ever achieved.

I would add to that people should search for and check out the children of the UDHR - The Council Of Europe (1949) and its' The European Convention of Human Rights 1950/3 and The European Court of Human Rights.

The UK's borderline illegitimate siblings of the European Convention - "The Human Rights Act 1998", The Equality Act 2006 and utterly illegitimate Foster Parent: The Equality & Human Rights Commission (2007).

Sadly, the UK Fascist Party is trying to force through the "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill" and the "Safety of Rwanda Bill" - which are the death of human rights - before it (Tory Party) is consigned to electoral oblivion and the UK Red Not Really Fascist Party is doing nothing to stop either or committing to repeal them IF passed; or help the many people forced into extreme deprivation since 2010.

I am waiting for someone to realise the solution to ALL the Boat crossings is to stop the (resource/idiotological) wars (refugees) and ENFORCE the bloody UDHR worldwide (Asylum Seekers)!

Noone has yet admitted that current migration patterns are a drop in the ocean (pun intended) compared to when 4 percent, or higher, above pre industrial level temperature levels rise alongside the less obvious effects of pollution - drive up to 2/3 of the world into mass migration for survival.

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

A timely reminder of one of the VERY FEW decent things the UN has ever achieved.

I would add to that people should search for and check out the children of the UDHR - The Council Of Europe (1949) and its' The European Convention of Human Rights 1950/3 and The European Court of Human Rights.

The UK's borderline illegitimate siblings of the European Convention - "The Human Rights Act 1998", The Equality Act 2006 and utterly illegitimate Foster Parent: The Equality &...

10 Dec 2023 at 22:50 | Open on ambrosia.moe
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