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Robert Sanscartier @Snoro@mastodon.social · Aug 05, 2026
#NZ #PersonsWithDisabilities #NZ #NewZealand One tetraplegic man, evacuated from his home, reportedly spent the night in a police station after no hospital or rest home could accommodate him. More recently, amid flooding in Oamaru last month, one woman trying to evacuate her blind nephew and another who uses a wheelchair found floodwaters made it impossible to push the wheelchair to her vehicle, leaving them stranded https://theconversation.com/disabled-people-face-greater-climate-change-risks-and-they-can-also-help-nz-adapt-289141 #ClimateChange #pollution #environment #climate
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Robert Sanscartier @Snoro@mastodon.social · Jun 25, 2026
#PersonsWithDisabilities If the Bank continues to treat disability inclusion and climate action as two separate issues, it risks creating or reinforcing new mobility barriers for persons with disabilities while missing opportunities to expand accessible mass transit systems that support transport decarbonization https://bankinformationcenter.org/update/world-bank-integrate-climate-and-disability-june-2026/ #ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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