Hey #envhum Bluesky👋🏻
I’m about to finish my MPhil at UCT and am on the lookout for PhD opportunities in 2026. My interests are broad but generally: political ecology, multispecies, climate justice, extractavism. Please reach out if you have any leads or know of programs looking for students.

Environmental Humanities South is welcoming applications for 2026! Come and join us 🌿
#envhum
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Africans want climate action, just like so many citizens around the world. #the89percent @coveringclimatenow.org @antonharber.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @dailymaverick.co.za

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The cancellation of PEPFAR funding to South Africa could cause between 150,000 and 295,000 additional HIV infections by the end of 2028, a new study shows.

Read groundup.org.za/article/us-f... by Jesse Copelyn

“Sharpeville is an iconic place in the history of South Africa. Our people’s blood flowed through these streets. Our Constitution was signed here but the people here don’t have their constitutional rights recognised. Isn’t that ironic?” resident Able Radebe told GroundUp."

Climate action means taxing the rich.

We must "strengthen equality and redistribution through suitable taxation policies, basic income and job guarantees and by setting maximum income levels, expanding public services and rolling back neoliberal reforms"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

🔒"It is important these spaces work for everyone, not just a privileged few. The redevelopment of the club is a reimagining of what public space can be in a city that continues to suffer from uneven distribution of green spaces and community facilities." www.news24.com/news24/south...

Been in the field this past month for my research with the Critical Zones Africa project! I wrote a brief reflection on attending to dragonflies, litter, fynbos, sand, and people. #envhum #envhumsouth

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185 countries, representing 83% of global emissions and almost 80% of the world’s economy, have missed the Paris Agreement deadline to submit new climate plans.

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

Parts of SA tipping towards irreversible dust bowl, as heat and drought accelerate damage by decades of heavy grazing & mining, threatening conservation & livelihoods.
#climatecrisis #drought #extremeweather #desertification #climate #drylands #karoo

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

“… there’s a risk climate action will perpetuate the same structural imbalances that first enabled environmental exploitation. Only by tackling both climate injustice and economic inequality together can the world prevent further climate disasters and ensure a more equitable future.”

A Landmark #climatejustice ruling in SA 🇿🇦!
High court ruled no new coal power can be built as it violates constitutional rights to health and well being, particularly for the youth.
Read this comprehensive report by climate journalist Julia Evans
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

South Africa's excellent constitution strikes again:

The High Court has ruled that the country can't open new coal plants because that would violate citizens' rights to a healthy environment.

Materially speaking, oil is simply a sticky, black goo. It doesn’t have any innate power separate from the kind of society we live in—capitalism. africasacountry.com/2024/12/read...

📄 New piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social

Raira and I explore how the fossil fuel industry appropriates the language of resource sovereignty, #decolonisation and #sustainabledevelopment critiques to expand extractavism and green colonialism on the continent.

africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

James Granelli and Raíra Fróes visit Africa Energy Week in Cape Town, and find that the language of resource sovereignty is disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies. africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2

africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...