MEDIA INDIGENA 161

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Earth’s bio-diversity death spiral: can we change course? A new United Nations study paints a dark picture of the future, a future pretty much guaranteed if we as a planet continue to follow a path of economic, political and  ecological auto-asphyxiation.

But who is this “we” exactly? Turns out, just like the current climate crisis, it’s only a minority of global actors  who bear the lion’s share of the blame. We discuss why some feel our greatest hope lies with the exemplary leadership of Indigenous peoples.

Joining host/producer Rick Harp at the roundtable this week are Candis Callison, Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University, and Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama.

Links referenced and/or consulted for this week's discussion:

• “The TL;DR on that report that says we’re killing off everything,” Grist
   
• “Humanity Is About to Kill One Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide,” New York Magazine
   
• "Why Decarbonization and Decolonization Go Hand-in-Hand," MEDIA INDIGENA 136
   
• "UN Report Says Indigenous Sovereignty Could Save the Planet," Truthout
   
• Trudeau says First Nations 'don't have a veto' over energy projects," Financial Post
   
• "Trudeau spills on Kinder Morgan pipeline," National Observer [video + transcript]
   
• "Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates," International Monetary Fund (IMF)
   
• "Isn’t America Already Kind of Socialist?", Jacobin
   
• "read this thread [by @bethsawin] ... and understand why PASSIVE VOICE IS THE ENEMY OF THE PLANET," Tweet by @MaryHeglar
   
• "Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point," The Nation
   
• "Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance," Jason Hickel
   
• Décroissance: How the degrowth movement is blooming in Quebec, Briarpatch
   
• "Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss" [article] [paper]
   
• Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations

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