I'm a psychotherapist who has been working on climate issues since 2004, helping us understand the everyday denial, anxiety and grief that many people share.
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Ro Randall retweeted
Age will play a big role in who gets to move
We know that the impacts of climate will not be felt eqaully. Age is likely to be a key factor in who can move and who gets trapped.
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9. It's possible that climate change may reduce young Americans' ability to move, and their wealthier parents may find it easier to migrate to safer locations.
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Scaremongering about future episodes of mass cross-border climate migration won't make people back better climate policies. It will probably just make people more fearful of migration in general - new edvidence tell us.
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Ro Randall retweeted
This article worth a read 👀 ⬇️
1. For a long time the security community has painted climate-linked migration as one of the great security threats of our time. ⚠️
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✅ Yes - climate change will re-shape patterns of migration
❌ But no - it's not as simple as lots of people moving north
One of the biggest impacts of climate is to push people further into poverty. As this happens, migration actually becomes harder
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The strikes this week have not been caused by junior doctors
They’ve been caused by a Government that has taken healthcare professionals for granted for far too long
Please RT if you can see through the Government spin and back the junior doctors
All they want is fair pay.
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This tweet is worthy of a reply for a few reasons...
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1. Climate change will certainly reshape patterns of migration. Most of the movement will be internal. But even longer distance migration is a potential climate adaptation strategy, not a source violence and chaos
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Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is supercharging disasters like droughts, and people are moving as a way of protecting their lives and livelihoods.
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Without the element of fear and danger, the narrative doesn’t work.
Narratives have consequences and portraying refugees as a threat leads to real violence.
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This article unfortunately deploys one such argument. I’m not singling it out for any reason, other than it popped up in my news feed this week. theowp.org/reports/climate-d…
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6. Many thanks for all the kind words, messages of support and such wide circulation of the essay. It took me a long time to write, and I published it with trepidation, knowing how some people (including a few friends) would react.
Ro Randall retweeted
Another year, another season of senseless violence against innocent wildlife. The start of grouse shooting season is a grim reminder of our failure to prioritize conservation and empathy over mindless tradition.
Time to #EndGrouseShooting
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Today is the #Inglorious12th - the start of the red grouse shooting season. This outdated, unjust “sport” is underpinned by crime, and supports nothing but a scorched landscape which is void of balanced biodiversity.
Pls RT if you’d like to see an end to this practice - for wildlife and people.
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🛑 The illegal coal mining at Ffos-y-Fran has to stop.
🔄 RT if you agree!
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But you know, the science is wrong, all based on grant-grubbing modelling, amplified by alarmist greenies, watermelons and hysterical doom-monger types.
Yep. Sure.
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New Looting the Ivory Tower video - "Activist Credibility Tokens"
So, if you take the notion of "nice guy tokens" (the poisonous idea that being 'nice' entitles you to sex as a reward), and apply it to social movements in a reductive and offensive way (my jam), then you get
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Living with the climate crisis: psychologically based groups to help people respond creatively & collectively to our global dilemmas.
...space for people to talk, to share, to express what they feel & to reflect... tools, ideas & skills for action.
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New episode: the Bystander Effect, with Gerdien de Vries.
Would you walk by on the other side, if THE PLANET HAD FALLEN IN THE CANAL??
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