She stayed at the house and left it only when she needed to eat. She would never hunger.
Perhaps this indicates that she's become one of those "crazy old hags" people ridicule and shame, mentioned earlier in the text.
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- Mar 2022
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www.guernicamag.com www.guernicamag.comFloating2
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phi krasue
Believed to be a cursed individual (usually a female) who engaged in various sins and fraudulent conducts during her previous life. A ghost of Thailand but also present in other Southeast Asian folklore.
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And yet, as Omar Dahi, Mike Hume, Christiane Fröhlich and I have shown elsewhere, and as others have also found, the Syria climate conflict narrative is deeply problematic.
Despite this narrative being problematic, it's perhaps the one being pushed the most by Western media.
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- Feb 2022
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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The prospect of an unlivable future has always shaped the emotional terrain for Black and brown people,
This statement draws a contrast between the "unlivable future" Black communities face and the "back to normal" attitude of the white community. For Back Americans their "normal" already consists of natural disasters, displacement, and health issues caused by the climate crisis. Their climate anxiety stems from the worry for their families, homes, and health not because this issue might cause an inconvenience in their lives.
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Put another way, is climate anxiety just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or get “back to normal,” to the comforts of their privilege?
A perfect example of this form of climate anxiety are the white parents in 'A Children's Bible'. Before the storm hit, they were seen to express a form of passive climate anxiety. Evie even mentions the phrase "business as usual" pertaining to the attitude of their parents towards this issue. It's not until after the storm has affected their daily lives that their concern and worry cause them to act.
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zora.medium.com zora.medium.com
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So, the next time you want to “educate” communities of color about climate change, remember that they have even more to teach you about building movements, about courage, about survival.
This quote really addresses the lack of racial diversity within the climate movement and how this white environmentalism can benefit from the perspectives of people with different backgrounds.
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edgeeffects.net edgeeffects.net
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The adults in the room—politicians, teachers, parents, economists, and pundits—are so invested in business as usual
This idea of adults continuing 'business as usual' is presented by Millet as well. The parents in the novel ignorantly continue partying while the kids are losing sleep over the climate crisis. It's not until they are faced with a destructive storm that they go into 'panic mode'.
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the best indicator for people caring and changing their behavior about climate change is if they feel it: in the weather, in economic security, or in health impacts.
A lot of the time people view climate change as an issue that can sit on the back-burner until they personally experience the consequences of global warming. It's not a problem until it's their problem too.
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