I spoke briefly in my last blog about the scientific and economizing lens through which climate change is regularly discussed, both in academic settings and in popular culture more broadly. This issue plagues the way we tackle approaches to mitigating and adapting to climate change, with countries, corporations, and other major world powers actively working […]
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Kyle Whyte & Building Reciprocal Bonds
In the final unit of my Contemporary Political Theory course at LSE, we discussed modern theories of addressing climate change. Some of the essential questions were: how do we decide who ought to ‘bear the burden’ of addressing climate change? How do we balance the historical accumulation of emissions with the impacts of the highest […]
Slowing Down, Getting in Touch
My friend Emma and I were eating lunch together at a ramen restaurant in Holborn when we got on the topic of spirituality. She and I both enjoy reading tarot and thinking about our connection to the earth in terms beyond the simple extractive relationship we engage in day-to-day. She expressed to me that since […]
(3) Nam Chun EcoVillage
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to go with a group of HKU students to the Nam Chun Ecovillage up near the Startling Inlet and the border to Shenzhen. This surrounding area actually has 55 local villages, with all but one settled by the local indigenous Hakka peoples. Similar to the last blog post’s theme […]
(2) Jackfruit Festival
Hong Kong is a subtropical climate, which means that from May to September, the climate is super humid and rainy and hot. Right now though, we are still in the winter period, which is comparatively mild and dry. However, with climate change, the cold fronts have broken new records in temperature, and the severity and […]
#1: A Small River with Smaller Turtles
Sitting and just listening to water slowly flow over stones and through reeds is quite serene. I can see a tiny, dark turtle perched on a small stone, with another tiny turtle friend paddling around the water nearby. If I look hard I can see tiny glints of light off tiny fish darting around. I […]
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