A dispatch from Lebanon. I can’t stop thinking about the unbearable elitism and entitlement I encounter in the Global North—it’s a culture, I have to say, it’s the culture of entitlement in every industry including in climate justice. I was invited to give a course at an elite University who just recently closed a $1Billion for a new climate school to do business as usual. Talk about waste of resources!! I proposed a class focused on Climate Adaptation Strategies from the Global South — since we are experiencing climate catastrophe ahead of the North. I interfaced with only the ultimate figure of authority in the GN: old white men who seemed to find me quirky to say the least. The class is pending approval. I plan of giving this class as part of Open Edu @theslowfactory this Fall alongside my peers who have been championing climate innovation and who are all from the Global South. I keep feeling surprised by the entitlement it’s so toxic. ID: Tweets by @celinecelines (me) overlaid on videos taken in Beirut, plane landing, roadtrip in the mountains, more videos of the moving landscape from taken from the car Tweets: 1) Made it to Lebanon where witnessing an entire country struggling without electricity without drinking water without gaz reinforces the necessity to look at Global South climate adaptation strategies because we are already living the consequences of climate change in real time. 2) The Global North thinks Climate adaptation is planting a million trees and capturing carbon to place in storage.. Honestly no concept whatsoever about community health + collective wellbeing. 3) In Lebanon we already have collective solar panels in neighborhoods, food programs, access to farm to street agriculture. Living with water rationing and no fuel for decades has given rise to a stronger community that has tools and processes to care for elders and families. 4) We are far from being perfect and that is precisely what differentiates us from sterile Global North systems where all seems to be perfectly calculated while nothing actually works in serving community. Climate justice is about human rights rooted in decolonial practices.