People won't be able to take their island vacations once they're underwater thanks to climate change. https://mas.to/@Fanua/113217721659619841
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People won't be able to take their island vacations once they're underwater thanks to climate change. https://mas.to/@Fanua/113217721659619841
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"Land back" doesn't just mean from colonialism, but also capitalism which is literally causing our lands to drown.
And there's no getting the land back once it's underwater.
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@[email protected] I was in a slack and after the fires in Hawaii someone wanted to take a vacation there and was asking the slack channel "what are some places I should go? What fun things are there to do there?" and I responded with some polite variant of "Hawaiians have repeatedly asked people not go, especially now when resources are scarce" and they fired back with "oh but a government official said tourism would help them rebuild" and
well
yeah
so that was the end of that conversation. I'm sure they still went. I linked something about what actual indigenous people wanted (and the government official was obviously not from there) and that... yeah, that conversation just stopped.
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@aud This makes me so angry. But it's exactly what I'm talking about.
After the Maui fires, I read articles about how [insert another island here] is "the new Maui". Just horrible.
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@[email protected] I'm sorry. I debated about posting it... I didn't know whether it would help or hurt. I didn't talk about it at the time because... well. You know.
But it's just so entrenched and even when people are faced with criticism for it by other white people it just... in one ear, out the other -
@[email protected] I feel like every island nation has paid the price for capitalism four or five times over: genocide, resource extraction, slavery, and now they're the first to pay the toll for the harms it all enacted on the planet. It's fucking bullshit and the least people can do is stop going to the goddamn islands when asked.
