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Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« on: May 20, 2022, 08:06:47 pm »
Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
3 hours ago Eric Worrall 23 Comments
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According to Research Associate Flossie Kingsbury, learning how your ancestors exploited the natives and burned lots of coal helps you embrace the idea of climate reparations.

How taking a closer look at your family tree can help you get to grips with climate change

Published: May 19, 2022 12.17am AEST
Flossie Kingsbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, Aberystwyth University

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Put simply, climate change is the result of two processes: industrialisation and colonialism. Industrialisation is when a society’s primary mode of production shifts from manual agricultural labour to machine-aided manufacturing. Colonialism is when one nation occupies and exerts control over another, usually involving violence and exploitation.

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Let’s look at some examples from my own family. Samuel Polyblank (born around 1816), one of my great-great-great-grandfathers, was a shipwright from London’s East End. The ships he worked on helped to feed demand for international trade, taking goods to and from the colonies. They may even have been used by the East India Company, the world’s first global corporate superpower, and a key player in colonial rule and exploitation in Asia.

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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2022, 08:07:38 pm »
WHAT TOTAL BULLSH*T!!!!
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2022, 08:17:43 pm »
Once again, it ain't me babe! My ancestors were the exploited not the exploiters, go lay that crap on the moslems. I'm not a damn bit shy about getting in some A-holes face quite vocally when they try to lay that oppressed my people crap on me.
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2022, 08:34:11 pm »
Climate reparations?  No.

As a heterosexual white Christian male of Western European descent, I know that I and my ancestors will be blamed for all sorts of nonsense.  We are the bad guys.  Why?  Because we are victims of our own success, and the losers' descendents are envious.

There is nothing stopping anyone afflicted with rich guilt from donating their own money and property for reparations to the aggrieved.  You're not taking my stuff; I earned it.
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2022, 08:37:43 pm »
There it is, the dumbest idea today.  No more calls, we have a Winner!

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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2022, 09:02:27 pm »
What a load of hooey.
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2022, 12:40:10 am »
Then I thank God I am not related to John Kerry or Algore, the biggest criminals on the planet
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2022, 12:50:35 am »
Geez, even the medieval Church didn't exploit guilt and indulgences so blatantly.
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Re: Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2022, 01:21:06 am »
Horse manure. Dry it and burn it, it's apparently a limitless renewable resource.
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