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Today's post is about the flooding in Pine Ridge Reservation.
Recently the flood of the century has hit the reservation, record water levels, people unable to leave their homes, roads are rivers, and years worth of damage has taken place over homes, businesses, and communities there. It was caused by a blizzard and fast snow melt. There's also still snow, yet to melt, that could add even more water to the flood.
I would like to remind you that climate change is not only real, but a crisis, and it hits the communities under the poverty line first. If you haven't already seen a video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's rebuttal to the statement that the Green Deal is elitist, I highly recommend you do, because it's cold hard logic. Our air pollution gives city kids asthma, our trash collects in areas that can't afford to say "not in my backyard". Our greenhouse gas emissions cause extreme warm-and-freezing winters, record levels of weather that flood places without the infrastructure to respect its people. It is the poor areas that are affected and it's not enough to say "too bad for them". Pine Ridge is in no way a poor area because its people cannot hold their own; indigenous people people have been continually oppressed by the government in their own land, and legally.
I won't do all the talking, I'll get some of the voices of people living in the area now. There's some links below. But I hope you consider reading the entirety of this post and to find your own ways to aid the people of the Lakota nation who are affected by this natural disaster. At the moment I haven't found lots of ways to give aid, so I'll start with this link, consider donating goods, there's been a log of damage with the flood:
https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/make-a-difference/donate-goods/
Now This news had a nice video on it, but I believe it got taken down somehow
-Smithsonian Mag
-Nation of Change
-New York Times
Thanks for reading, updates as I'm able
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