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The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate Violence

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the explosives. Extreme weather lights the fuse. Completing these variables of vulnerability can help us understand that climate change is not a discrete threat. It is the wind that blows upon all the embers that are already there, the salt that pours into our existing wounds.

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Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik is a journalist and activist with writing in Pacific Standard, Open Democracy, and New Internationalist. He co-founded and is co-editor of www.worldat1C.org, a communications initiative designed to humanize the ecological crisis and clarify its causes.