Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍🌏🔥
@Rituvermapuri
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Anthropologist • Author • Photographer • Adventurer • Thinking out of the box • Acting with a conscience • Equality is something you do not a box to tick off
Planet earth
Joined April 2010
My talk on skewed North-South power relations, histories of extraction/exploitation, GDP failures & wellbeing alternatives @EUparliament #BeyondGrowth conference: https://t.co/S0qoRIR9QS Thanks to co-panelists @jasonhickel @_RajPatel @Liepollo9 @mmatias_ for powerful discussions.
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Ms. Ritu Verma, Adjunct professor and Research scholar, UCLA, @MyCarletonU University speaking on 'Mindful development: Experience of well being and environmental consciousness in African and #Himalayan cultural contexts'. #5thVajarayanaconference2025 📍Thimphu, Bhutan
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Sad day for Canada. We have let anger (and bots) enabled by the social media tear at the fabric of our country, and the decency that Canadians are known for. We have allowed broligarchs Drumpf and Moskovite interfere with our political affairs. Oh Canada, we are better than this.
Justin Trudeau to give news conference as reports say he will resign as leader of Canada's governing party - watch live https://t.co/S4dlxMpwAJ
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Happy to share my double-length article "Thimphu as a Cultural City" in Tashi Delek, the inflight magazine of @BhutanDrukAir. The city of Thimphu in #Bhutan was my home for more than a decade, remains a favorite home & has a special place in my heart. Photographic book to come!
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Burn of the day! Brought to you by Canada.
Canada imports 277 Billion in goods from the US every year. Does that mean we are subsidizing America $277,000,000,000 a year? Stop the subsidies! Make America the 11th province!
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Canada imports 277 Billion in goods from the US every year. Does that mean we are subsidizing America $277,000,000,000 a year? Stop the subsidies! Make America the 11th province!
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Award for best editing of the year! “Hey Time Magazine, I fixed it for you. You don’t put a rapist on the cover of your magazine, you put the warrior fighting it”. Credit: Natalie Berthe. #TimeMagazine
#PersonOfTheYear
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G-zero Forum: 4 carbon negative and neutral countries, Bhutan, Madagascar, Panama, Suriname, launch #GZERO forum at #COP29. Goal: net zero, #climate resilient and nature positive future, and progress in redefining our broken relationship with the planet. https://t.co/PbtyWXmlvP
asianews.network
It was a shared understanding of their plight that led four countries to unite in a new groundbreaking initiative—G-ZERO.
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Sure. Let’s ignore science and accelerate #climatechange, so we have even more fires, floods, food insecurity, and oh yeah, economic roadblocks. What we need is a major change in our overconsumption habits and to end reliance on fossil fuels. We DON’T need #climatedenial tweets.
4 Reports Showing Canada's Oil & Gas Emissions Cap is Not in the Best Interests of Canadians. The last thing we need is more economic roadblocks. #CdnPoli
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Frustrated about the outcome of the elections? Angry about plans for new ‘government’? Disgusted with Elon Musk? Don’t move to Canada! 😂 Move to #Blusky! A mass Xodus! See you @rvermapuri.bsky.social ://www.wired.com/story/im-going-to-bluesky-is-the-new-im-moving-to-canada/
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#COP29 What happens when fossil fuel agents take over UNFCCC COP processes? Thankfully, backlash and resistance from climate change leaders. Hope this means future COPs will take place in countries championing climate action, not denial and acceleration. https://t.co/3V1WyyFr5r
theguardian.com
Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group
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Check out my #Blusky account: @rvermapuri.bsky.social and the Starter Pack on Global South, Majority World and Decolonial Voices on Blusky. https://t.co/wokHfMtewt
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Hand recount needed immediately. The democracy that goes around other countries to “monitor” election results against fraud, is in much need of monitoring itself! #Election2024
#electionfraud
#electionrecount
If Trump & Elon’s “little secret” was to use Starlink in swing states to tally the votes & rig the election - an investigation & hand recount is crucial. Now.
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What happens when the very process that is supposed to address #ClimateChange, is instead rigged towards servicing the #FossilFuel industry? Key question as we head into UNFCCC #COP29. Your thoughts? @schipper_lisa @aditimukherji @bsorlove @tommitchelliied
https://t.co/iOyc3FeLBF
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Talk about climate karma. Florida bans “climate change” from its textbooks, and from policy making and plans. #Climatechange knows no borders. You cannot “ban” this away. Stop fossil fuel burning. We are taking our planet to the brink, powered by with greed and ignorance. #Milton
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As bombs rain down on #Gaza and #Lebanon, some heads of state could make a decision this week at the #UN that could give peace another chance. Sign the petition urging the UN to recognise #Palestine as a sovereign state and the rights of its people.🕊️☮️ https://t.co/TTCguKZ8Wp
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"#Earth may have breached 7 of 9 #planetaryboundaries.. The transgression of boundaries..risks disrupting the stability…of the state of the planet that has persisted for the past 12,000 years and that has allowed the rise of complex human #civilization." #climatechange #degrowth
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My research interests always overlapped strongly with his. He graciously invited me to exchange ideas & thoughts with him over several days. I will never forget his humor, sharp intellect & intellectual generosity. I am sad to hear of his passing away. Rest in Power James Scott.
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The world has lost an important, radical & critical theorist. #JamesScott was a visionary anthropologist who focused on peasant struggles & resistance against authority and power. I had the privilege of spending time with him @theasainfo in Australia. 🧵 https://t.co/xNwnSwvSp2
reason.com
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.
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