#bougainville — Public Fediverse posts

My all time favourite 🩷💚💜

#Bougainvillea #Bougainville #Bougainvillea_glabra #Pflanzen #Natur

From last month, some more good journalism on "#KingdomOfPapaala" on #Bougainville, probably the world's most country-like #micronation, led by financial scammer Noah Musingku:

https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/meet-the-south-pacific-ponzi-king-with-a-bogus-bank-and-a-global-fan-club

#independence #geography #micronations #PapuaNewGuinea #politicaleconomy #Melanesia #SouthPacific #separatism @geography @geopolitics #sovereignty

Bougainville will 2027 ein unabhängiger Staat werden. Doch die sich lang hinziehenden Verhandlungen darüber mit Papua Neuguinea verhindern einen klaren Plan zum Aufbau von Strukturen.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000281294/wahl-soll-bougainvilles-weg-in-die-unabhaengigkeit-weisen

#Bougainville #PapuaNeuguinea #GeoPol

It was great to present my work on fatalism and climate action in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in a session on "Emotions in the transition to a no-carbon society" at the Global Tipping Points conference @uniexeter.

I talked about high levels of fatalism - beliefs that the future is predetermined and that human agency is pontless - in Bougainville, how this already reduces climate action, and wonder how this could be a barrier to harnessing potential positive tipping points in populations truly left behind.

Here are my slides 👉https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NIEhEWA2IC-4V2FC2ybCLFBmnbcO0ta4p-nhiiTOaIc/edit?usp=sharing

I also learned from @laurafoggrogers the importance of triggering positive emotions to fully engage the population at large, while Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive proposes a very interesting paradigm combining fear, outrage and desire, drawn from her book "The language of climate politics". I think everyone agrees that one size-fits-all type of communication is not optimal and that tailoring the message to the recipient is very important.

#DrJohnRowlatt discussed about how to best engage the UK population, and elderly people in particular, to switch to low-carbon heating systems. @larasningrum_dianty talked about the potential for narratives of hope in low-income countries and in general.

I look forward to continuing this discussion. 🙏 co-panelists & attendants.

#ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #Fatalism #Bougainville #PapuaNewGuinea #Melanesia #Research #FieldResearch

Sur la route du Gard, ce dimanche dernier. Le Pic Saint-Loup, toujours majestueux, n’est plus dans l’obscurité comme lors de mon dernier trajet. D’ailleurs, ici la photo a été assombrie (contrastée) pour masquer les petites imperfections de la prise de vue.

Ce retour dans le Gard sent bon le printemps. Quel bonheur d’entre changer Loriot d’Europe et Petit Duc dès notre retour à la […]

https://san.heraut.eu/2025/05/03/chroniques-du-gard-8-avec-un-brin-de-lozere/

Some recent reporting on the "Kingdom of #Papaala", enigmatic realm of a notorious financial scammer that's become something between a #micronation and a #defacto state. https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/the-island-king-sean-williams-bougainville/

#Bougainville #PNG #Melanesia #defactostates #micronations #geography #independence #oceania @geography @geopolitics #nationalism #scams

#PlanetCritical #RachelDonald #planet #earth #global #globalnews #flying #slowtravelling #ClimateActivism #GianlucaGrimalda #PapuaNewGuinea #Bougainville
#article #podcast

"Doing the Right Thing | Gianluca Grimalda. The climate change researcher who was fired for refusing to fly"

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/doing-the-right-thing-gianluca-grimalda

#PlanetCritical #RachelDonald #planet #earth #global #globalnews #flying #slowtravelling #ClimateActivism #GianlucaGrimalda #PapuaNewGuinea #Bougainville
#article #podcast

"Doing the Right Thing | Gianluca Grimalda. The climate change researcher who was fired for refusing to fly"

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/doing-the-right-thing-gianluca-grimalda

West Papuans are #FirstNations #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted.”

#PapuaMerdeka Free West Papua

West Papuans are #FirstNations #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted.”

#PapuaMerdeka Free West Papua

West Papuans are #FirstNations #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted.”

#PapuaMerdeka Free West Papua

West Papuans are #FirstNations #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted.”

#PapuaMerdeka Free West Papua

West Papuans are #FirstNations #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted.”

#PapuaMerdeka Free West Papua

https://dfait.federalrepublicofwestpapua.org/document/launching-clovis-mwambas-the-meteorite-memos/

#PapuaMerdeka #FreeWestPapua

West Papuans are indigenous #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted

https://dfait.federalrepublicofwestpapua.org/document/launching-clovis-mwambas-the-meteorite-memos/

#PapuaMerdeka #FreeWestPapua

West Papuans are indigenous #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted

https://dfait.federalrepublicofwestpapua.org/document/launching-clovis-mwambas-the-meteorite-memos/

#PapuaMerdeka #FreeWestPapua

West Papuans are indigenous #Melanesians, with kin in #PapuaNewGuinea, #Vanuatu, #Fiji, #SolomonIslands, #Bougainville, #Kanaky #NewCaledonia, and #TorresStrait. 


ʻSlow motion genocideʼ is blamed for 546,126 missing Papuans— assassinated, poisoned, exiled, born dead or not at all. Our brightest are incarcerated. Our land, source of spirituality and sustainability, is ravaged by miners and loggers. Our waters, pristine in 1962, are polluted

The 2002 cabinet records are now available.

#auspol #JohnHoward #refugees #Bali #EastTimor #SolomonIslands #Bougainville #CHOGM #Environment #infrastructure #Media #TimorSeaTreaty #Aboriginal #health #welfare #Nauru #PNG #shipping #drought #AustralianHistory @histodons

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/cabinet/latest-cabinet-release