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James Hamilton - The Last Days of Pompeii

Jstvan Cserney

Peder Mørk Mønsted

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Max Calendar 1998 - Monica Bellucci by Fabrizio Ferri

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Mary Magdalene as a Hermit (detail), Francesco Hayez, 1833.

Suburban Lawns performing in Los Angeles, July 24, 1979. photo by John Brian King

How do we navigate climate doomism? At young ages, many Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are taught to normalize pain from social, racial, or environmental injustices. These injustices have influenced the understanding of BIPOC on how they can react in both external and internal situations. BIPOC often find themselves silencing their pain while continuing to exist in an extractive capitalist system designed to oppress marginalized communities. Climate Doomism is a popularized term that has risen on social media by predominately media news outlets exclaiming that there is no hope left in the future for the planet, or some variation of the sentence. While it was originally heralded as a method to inform others of the severity of the crisis, it lacks the valuable narratives and perspectives from resistance movements and Indigenous cultures, and as such, inspires apathy. We can refer to climate doomism as the defeatist perspective born from our path to ecological destruction from anthropogenic actions and systems created by human society. Climate doomism is often used as a scare tactic to disempower collectivized communities on their journey for environmental liberation. Most often not, climate doomism is never specific in addressing the role of white supremacy and capitalism, and how it has contributed to global environmental injustice. The same scientists who have done extensive research on climate and the environment are the same ones that often fail to communicate the information in an accessible way to communities that are the most impacted. In fact, it's not that communities don't know what's happening because they already know and often experience the impacts, but there is a large culture, educational, and language barrier. Researchers are heavily trained in methodologies, analytical skills, and communication with other scientists, yet they don't receive culturally extensive skills to translate to communities. The climate crisis has been happening for many countries, generally framed at the beginning as global warming, then to climate change, and now the climate crisis or even climate chaos. The West has played a huge role in silencing narratives from countries that have been the most exploited. How can we center the resilient narratives within our most impacted communities? -queer brown vegan

J. Swelinck - Emblem of the Proteus, 1627.

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