how migrants understand their own experience
For the Humanitarian Approach: Not only must we make policy that acknowledges climate displacement, but we must also somehow acknowledge the migrant as a person. Their own experience of themselves might be as innocent victims.
the world will experience one of the greatest waves of migration and displacement in modern history.
This is a major cause of fear. My own personal memories of Hurricane Sandy were scary enough. Imagine natural disasters of this level? Imagine 200 million people in 2050 with nowhere to go.
The following year, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, laying bare the ways that pre-existing injustices (including poverty, segregation, and substandard housing) magnify the impacts of storms and flooding, which will only grow worse with climate change. 28
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Those living in Brooklyn, NY can remember both Hurricane Sandy and Irene. Brooklynites had to take precautions as well. People taped their windows and stayed indoors. This is an experience to remember since New York doesn't often suffer from hurricanes. It creates fear and makes the impacts of storms and flooding more real for people who live far away from those places.
By adopting this principle, the UNFCCC acknowledges that the responsibility to address climate change should be proportionate to a country’s contribution to the problem and capacity to address it.5
The UNFCCC adopts Principle 7 of the Rio Declaration articulates CBDR (common but differentiated responsibility) and therefore creates some fairness for the issue of climate injustice.
In 2004, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation released a report on the disproportionate impact of climate change on African Americans (including health impacts from heat waves and increased pollution) and their relatively minimal contribution to the problem given their lower-than-average greenhouse gas emissions.
This is an important point to think about. What groups of people are contributing average and above average greenhouse gas emissions?
What we need in L.A., as elsewhere, is a foundational literature that imagines nature not as the opposite of the city but as the basic stuff of modern everyday life.
This promises a compelling future. It shows progress in a big way when considering the LA of the 1930s when LA was the American Eden. Can imagining nature as the basic stuff of modern everyday life be an improvement to the American Eden?
the traditional refrain here that L.A. is, in reality, exactly whatever you want it to be. It’s “all imagination,” “the city in me,” and “your dream life.”
A city where you deny your connections to people, nature, and the past.
L.A. actually still had it, but lost as in could no longer see or find it.
The fact that the river was there but no longer visible reminded me of what it might be like to live in a civilization so advanced that we had a Dyson Sphere. A Dyson Sphere covers the entire Sun, but in return we harness all of its power.
Is there nature in L.A.? Far more than our philosophies dream of, and much more than in Portland or Boulder—more, possibly, on Mapleton Drive alone than in some small towns in Iowa.
This is the authors conclusion to the question, "Is there nature in LA. But, how sustainably?
used birds and deer to make food and clothes, and turned trees into shelter, and turned water, rocks, and dirt into energy, tools, boats, medicine, religious objects, art.
Being educated about how the indigenous people of a place used their land gives us an idea of how we can be more knowledgeable about how to urbanize that same land.
The hike has to be a story about how our connections to one another define our encounters with nature.
This sentence refers to nature as a way to heal from a job that is done totally indoors.
Mango body whip stories, in other words, look for and follow the nature we use
Mango body whip stories expands our ideas of what form nature might take in people's lives. It also refers to one way that the wildness of nature can become domestic in urban settings.
a historically powerful definition of nature as only the wild things, which we destroy and banish when we build cities.
Nature is wild and civilization is domestic.
decried as the Anti-Nature
Is there really an Anti-Nature?
“Is there nature in L.A.?” people typically respond when I say I write about nature in this town. But I have ended up here happily, and Bill has just returned, exactly because L.A. has become the finest place in America to think and write about nature.
I have never been to LA, but I like this contradiction. How cities include nature in their design is so interesting.
which looks like an outsize concrete sewer and is most famous for being forgotten.
This description reminds me of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It is both contaminated and forgotten, but there are benches right alongside it where people can sit and have a very Brooklyn experience.