copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2015-10-01): Harini Amarasuriya is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka (Nawala, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka [[email protected]]). Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh (Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15A George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, United Kingdom [[email protected]]). [...] Amarasuriya, Harini, and Jonathan Spencer. 2012. NGOs, the state, and "cultural values": imagining the global in Sri Lanka. In Global matters for non-governmental public action. J. Howell, ed. Pp. 115–132. London: Palgrave. [...] Shelby E. Ward, Ranitri WeerasuriyaDie Rückgewinnung Colombos. Die postkoloniale Geopolitik der sri-lankischen Urbanisierung, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur42, no.22(Jan 2023): 405–425.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2023-01-21): etween April 2017 and his death in February 2018, the veteran Sri Lankan activist Joe Seneviratne met Harini Amarasuriya for a series of remarkable interviews in which he recalled his life and set down his views on the people and events he had encountered on the way. Joe was born in June 1943, four years before independence in February 1948. He is one of that generation of activists, as Jayadeva Uyangoda pointed out in a celebrated essay twenty years ago, whose personal biography is coeval with the unruly biography of the independent nation-state known as Ceylon until 1972, and since then, Sri Lanka (Uyangoda 1997). These are the people whose stories we are documenting as part of our bigger project on the anthropology of dissent and conscience. This short essay examines the often complex relationship between political dissent and intimate relations through the example of one, particularly gnarly and indomitable, life. That life can be seen to be divided between a commitment to revolution and solidarity with the comrades, and pulling against this, other kinds of commitment – to home, to partner, to children. [...] Amarasuriya, Harini and Jonathan Spencer. 2019. "Tracing Conscience in a Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka, 1960s-2000s." In Tobias Kelly, ed., "The Intimacy of Dissent," American Ethnologist website, April 15, 2019. http://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/the-intimacy-of-dissent/tracing-conscience-in-a-time-of-war. Harini Amarasuriya is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-29): Following a paradigm shift in the polity of Sri Lanka, with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) securing the presidency of Sri Lanka last week, all eyes are on the new government. While the victory of NPP presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake is a decisive moment in the island’s history, also making history is academic and activist Dr Harini Amarasuriya, whom the NPP appointed as the Prime Minister for its caretaker government. The Sunday Morning spoke to Premier Amarasuriya, the third woman PM of Sri Lanka, in an exclusive interview, where she outlined the priorities of the new government. Amarasuriya told The Sunday Morning that the NPP wanted a disruption-free, smooth transition with a focus on maintaining economic stability while progressing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement and debt restructuring in accordance with its plan and mandate, expressing confidence that they had begun the change they planned for the island’s political culture, which the party would continue after the general elections.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-25): National People’s power lawmaker Harini Amarasuriya, 54, signs after taking oath for the post of Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (Sri Lanka Government Information Department via AP) [...] Harini Amarasuriya, 54, a university lecturer and activist, comes from a similar background as Dissanayake and both are members of the Marxist-leaning National People’s Power coalition, which remains in the opposition in Parliament. [...] Amarasuriya also assumed duties of four other ministries covering justice, health, women, trade and industries. Another lawmaker from Dissanayake’s party, Vijitha Herath, was appointed minister in charge of six departments including foreign affairs, transport, public security, environment, port and civil aviation.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2020-06-25): Harini Amarasuriya is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Studies, of the Open University of Sri Lanka. She obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include state society relations, political movements, dissent and activism. Her publications include Tracing Conscience in a Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka, 1960s-2000s, in the Intimacy of Dissent, edited by Tobias Kelley, Elite Politics and Dissent in Sri Lanka in The South Asianist, With that, discipline will also come to them": politics of post war urban Colombo in Current Anthropology, and Protests and Counter Protests: competing civil society spaces in post-war civil society in Sri Lanka in Economic and Political Weekly. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (Edited with Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, and Jonathan Spencer) is forthcoming later this year.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-23): Speaking to the media today, MP Amarasuriya said that the NPP will commence work on it from tomorrow. When inquired about the experience of the new government, she responded "We don’t have the experience of making the country bankrupt, for sure." MP Harini Amarasuriya said, however, that the NPP government will gain experience in building the country. (Newswire)
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-25): Dr Harini Amarasuriya is now the third woman to become prime minister in Sri Lanka following Sirimavo Bandaranaike (first appointed in 1960) and Chandrika Kumartunga (appointed in 1994 before becoming the country’s first and only woman president). [...] "Well, we don’t have experience with making the country bankrupt for sure, but we will gain experience in building the country." [...] Dr Amarasuriya steps into this role at a critical time for the country, standing next to newly elected President "A.N.D.", Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-24): Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, the NPP alliance contestant in national elections in Sri Lanka Dr. Harini Amarasuriya is one of the 24 contesting women in the upcoming elections from the National People’s Power (NPP) alliance. She is an academic and represents the Progressive Women's Collective of NPP in Sri Lanka. On 24th September 2024, Harini Amarasuriya has been appointed as the 16th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. She became the third woman in Sri Lanka to hold office.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-03-06): Harini Amarasuriya is a Member of Parliament, Sri Lanka. She was formerly Senior Lecturer, Open University of Sri Lanka.
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2024-09-21): "We recognize that India and China have global ambitions," said Harini Amarasuriya, a member of Parliament from the leftist coalition. "We aren’t averse to investment at all. We just want it done the proper way. We don’t want any corruption."
Claim: We don't have experience in Building the Country- Harini Amarasooriya (Social Media Users, 2024-09-24)
Evidence (2022-07-18): Harini Amarasuriya, 52, member of Parliament Amarasuriya is one of the few women in Sri Lanka’s male-dominated politics, a former academic who in 2020 was nominated to the Parliament by a coalition of left-leaning parties. She has thrown herself into organizing public meetings to open up the discussion about the country’s path forward.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2023-08-28): In conclusion, the viral Facebook post accompanied by a video captioned "Depopulation, Climate Change, and Weather Weapons :: 'Climate Change' is the Depopulation Agenda #Agenda2030" raises concerns about potential misinformation. The video attempts to establish a connection between climate change, depopulation initiatives, and the utilization of weather weapons as part of a secretive agenda. This assertion claims that climate change is orchestrated deliberately to further a depopulation agenda, utilizing advanced technologies to manipulate weather patterns. Given the intricate and contentious nature of these topics, it is essential to critically analyze the presented information and assess its accuracy.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2021-06-10): The link between population and climate change is broken. In both China and the U.S.—the top two emitters of greenhouse emissions—the average woman gives birth to 1.6 children in her lifetime, below the 2.1 children needed to replace herself and her partner.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2021-05-27): Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100 [...] Finally, it is worth noting that many of these demographic transitions are made within the context of accelerating climate change. Climate change can and will intersect with these demographic changes in multiple ways. For example, it can impact fertility by changing human behaviour and affecting migration patterns within countries (e.g. from rural to urban areas) and between countries (e.g. from poor to rich countries)19. These climate change-related shifts in migration patterns can exacerbate ongoing population shrinking and ageing, for example by influencing younger people to out-migrate from already rapidly ageing areas, accelerating thus population shrinking in some areas13,20,21. [...] In this sense, different ageing and shrinking countries and regions will very likely adapt through various context-specific social and economic measures. In some countries there are already discussions about the possibility of a ‘depopulation dividend’ through interventions such as the above linked to economic revitalization activities, i.e. ‘achievement from depopulation of positive gains that contribute to socio-cultural, political–economic, and environmentally sustainable living’109 (see example of ‘depopulation dividend’ for Sado Island in Japan, Supplementary Table 3).
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2021-01-24): But addressing climate change through either reducing or reversing growth in population raises difficult moral questions that most people would prefer to avoid having to answer. [...] The implication of these treatises on the perils of population growth suggest population control is an important measure to limit carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and global climate change. [...] So if we can get through this century without catastrophic environmental effects, then population may start to decline as a contributor to climate change.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Declining populations will ease the pressure eight billion people put on the planet. As the population and sustainability director at the Center for Biological Diversity, I’ve seen the devastating effects of our ever-expanding footprint on global ecosystems. But if you listen to economists (and Elon Musk), you might believe falling birthrates mean the sky is falling as fewer babies means fewer workers and consumers driving economic growth. [...] Lower fertility rates also typically signal an increase in gender equality. Better-educated women tend to have fewer children, later in life. This slows population growth and helps reduce carbon emissions. And when women are in leadership roles, they’re more likely than men to advance initiatives to fight climate change and protect nature. These outcomes are side effects of policies that are necessary regardless of their impact on population. [...] Population decline is only a threat to an economy based on growth. Shifting to a model based on degrowth and equity alongside lower fertility rates will help fight climate change and increase wealth and well-being.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2023-03-22): In recent years, many climate advocates have emphasized human population itself—as opposed to related factors such as consumption and technology—as the driving force behind environmental destruction. This is, at bottom, a very old idea that can be traced back to the 18th-century cleric Thomas Malthus. It is also analytically unsound and morally objectionable. Critics of overpopulation down through the ages have had a nasty habit of treating people less as individuals with value and agency than as sentient locusts. [...] When the problem is defined as too many carbon emissions, the solutions will be optimized to reduce emissions. When the problem is defined as too little education and bodily autonomy, solutions such as schooling and birth control make intuitive sense. When the problem is defined as too many people, the "solutions" will surely once again go far beyond the gentle, humane approaches that the neo-Malthusians emphasize. As The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas put it, "Enough with the innuendo: If overpopulation is the hill you want to die on, then you’ve got to defend the implications."
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2021-06-07): The link between population and climate change is broken. In both China and the U.S. — the top two emitters of greenhouse emissions — the average woman gives birth to 1.6 children in her lifetime, below the 2.1 children needed to replace herself and her partner. [...] Jade S. Sasser is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. She is the author of "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change."
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2011-10-27): As the world reaches an estimated seven billion people, people like Vivek say efforts to bring down the world's population must continue if life on Earth is to be sustainable, and if poverty and even mass starvation are to be avoided. [...] Western experts and local elites in the developing world soon imposed targets for reductions in family size, and used military analogies to drive home the urgency, says Matthew Connelly, a historian of population control at Columbia University in New York.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Regionally, the Northeast and Midwest will most likely be the most heavily affected by depopulation, the authors found. And on a state level, Vermont and West Virginia will be the hardest hit, with more than 80 percent of cities in each of these two states shrinking. Illinois, Mississippi, Kansas, New Hampshire and Michigan could also see about three quarters of their cities decline in population. [...] He appreciates, though, that the paper calls attention to future depopulation in general, which he agrees the data do support. "These are not isolated problems to the Detroits of the world," he says. "Depopulation is everywhere, and the paper is right to demand that cities face this fact and begin to honestly prepare for this possible future." The authors hope that their paper serves as a wake-up call to policy makers to begin moving away from growth-based planning and to start finding place-specific solutions for cities that are likely to depopulate in the years ahead. "We should see this not as a problem but as an opportunity to rethink the way we do things," Derrible says. "It’s an opportunity to be more creative."
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2019-11-07): The second myth is that stabilising population is a key solution to climate change. This is misleading and unhelpful because it makes a simplistic assumption that everyone’s contribution is equal. [...] Over-consumption by the wealthy is causing climate change, not rising population. Put another way, the average American emits nine times more CO₂ than the average Indian – so population reduction in the US would be much more effective in curbing greenhouse emissions than stabilising growing populations elsewhere. [...] While women’s education and universal access to family planning around the world would undoubtedly help stabilise population and bring major benefits, they are not a global solution to the problems of climate change. The roles of urbanisation, wealth distribution and consumption patterns are much more important to understand and control greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot use population as a way of blaming the world’s poor for the climate crisis.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Is Population Control a Climate Change Solution? A proposal to solve climate change by reducing fertility violates the tenets of reproductive justice—and sparks tough ethical questions. [...] When we counsel that limiting fertility (the number of children per woman*) is a necessary and sufficient solution to climate change, to whom are we speaking? It is not the already shrinking populations of wealthy nations, but those of poor nations, often in sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility remains high and arguments around "over-population" are invoked. A focus on the fertility of individuals in sub-Saharan Africa is, however, misguided.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-09-01): In recent years, the idea of having fewer children or not having children at all has been put forward by some climate activists as way to tackle climate change. A few scientific studies have demonstrated some evidence that younger generations view climate change as a reason for intending not to have children.1,2 This phenomenon may point to the Malthusian theory of the negative relationship between population and environment, whereby population growth is seen to cause environmental deterioration due to higher demand for food, water, land and other materials. With respect to climate change, the expansion from a world of 2 billion people in 1927 to the present world of 8 billion naturally means increased demand for energy, which is still mainly based on fossil fuels. Consequentially, as the global population grows, carbon emissions also increase.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2021-12-03): List of areas depopulated due to climate change This article lists several areas, regions, and municipalities that have either been completely or markedly depopulated, or are involved in plans for depopulation or relocation due to anthropogenic climate change. Several factors created or worsened by climate change can be responsible for necessitating managed retreat or the relocation of people and/or infrastructure. These include rising sea levels, increased flooding risk, changes to the makeup of the land (e.g. a habitable area becoming a wetland), coastal erosion, increased susceptibility to dangerous cyclones, droughts, water shortages, wildfires, and other factors, all of which can overlap with each other to enhance the risk of danger or inhabitability of a formerly populated region. [...] Lists [edit]Completely depopulated [edit]Significantly impacted [edit]Gallery [edit]See also [edit]- Climate migration - Environmental migrant - Managed retreat - List of landmarks destroyed or damaged by climate change
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-08-26): Depopulation is already happening For much of Europe, North America, and some of Northern Asia, depopulation has been underway for decades. Fertility rates have fallen steadily over the past 70 years and have stayed low, while longer life expectancies mean numbers of very old people (over 80) will double in these regions within 25 years. [...] It’s very much an open question whether falling populations will reduce pressure on the natural world. Unless we also cut emissions and change consumption patterns in developed countries, this is by no means guaranteed.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2024-01-11): Depopulation, along with aging infrastructure systems, creates social, economic and policy challenges7. In particular, population loss in already developed cities can result in underutilized infrastructure with poor maintenance, possibly leading to disruptions in basic services like transit, clean water, electricity and internet access8,9. Having an estimation of future population trends can assist authorities in better planning and designing cities and their infrastructure systems for depopulation. [...] The solutions to address the challenges brought by depopulation will need to be tailored to local contexts. For example, city size has a large impact—solutions for urban cities rarely apply to rural areas. The type and size of some of the legacy infrastructure that must be maintained are important too, as are local climate and economic conditions. New practices that embrace principles of adaptability, modularity and multifunctionality should be investigated and developed. In the US context, this would also require more flexibility in administrative and financial decision-making. What is certain is that an important cultural shift in planning and engineering communities is needed, away from conventional, growth-based planning, to accommodate a dramatic demographic shift.
Claim: Climate Change is a tool used for Depopulation!! (Social Media Users, 2023-08-28)
Evidence (2020-09-03): "Sometimes people try to use population as a way to let rich countries off the hook," said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute in California, "whereas in reality, it's our consumption and our level of economic activity that drives emissions more than the number of people we have." [...] "We cannot tell [these] countries that, okay, we already have a lot of greenhouse gases, you should stop using energy," said Leiwen Jiang, a senior associate at the Population Council in New York and former IPCC lead author. "But we can help them improve their technology."