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1. B (betsyvr@union.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 11:06:15 JST B

   What makes me sad is that a lot of people don’t know the feeling that your homelands are sinking and could, one day, no longer exist. That the lands that your ancestors called home and fought for could cease to exist because of neocolonial powers that refuse to acknowledge climate change is real. And that their bottom line is more important than you and where you came from. You don’t matter.

   • B (betsyvr@union.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 11:06:48 JST B

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     And that your land isn’t big enough for others to care. And that your people are too foreign for others to care. Yet you’re flooded with well meaning but useless advice to consume less individually, while corporations destroy homelands, poison waters, and release toxic fumes. No one blinks an eye.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • B (betsyvr@union.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 11:06:48 JST B

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     The takeaway here is that climate change is a form of colonialism. Yet again, the richest nations in the world destroy and control the sovereignty of smaller nations. And take away vast resources and land from indigenous people.