3- Accountability: Redirecting to the Source
Creating, drafting, pushing for, and fighting for real, punitive, ecocide legislations and legal cases defending the wellbeing cross-national atmospheres.
Wind, weather, and air transcend borders on the ground, meaning we all live in the same shared atmosphere. While geographic proximity plays a role in how much is shared, whether materially or affectively, this does not cancel out the fact that we reside, while not in the same boundaries on land, in the same aerial field.
This implies that what happens on my neighbour’s land, and therefore air, also travels and happens in my air- to a certain extent. At a small scale, this realisation may be of little significance. However, in the matters of pollution, war, and violence, what happens on my neighbour’s land and in my neighbour’s air certainly and unquestionably happens in my air as well.
Take the case of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the continued aggression in Lebanon as we write this, and the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of illegal and harmful substances being dropped by Israel. All that is being released does not stay in these specific geographies and at Ground Zero, and actually make their way to other places in the world- such as Crete, where we had conducted most of our research about wind and weather, found in our archive.
Violence and occupation therefore do not only exist in one defined moment in space and time, and transcend boundaries, again, both materially and affectively.
Occupation can and does exist in the atmosphere and the weather, and is felt and understood around the world in different ways.