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Episode 277 features Sarah, a Māori wahine living on Dharawal Country, and Criminology researcher, on Indigenous critiques of the movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and why Indigenous knowledge is so important in creating effective responses to climate change and environmental problems generally. This discussion builds on our last episode, which covered Don’t Look Up and also the effectiveness of different individual actions for the climate.

Links from Sarah:

For further info on the significance of Mauna Kea: www.protectmaunakea.net

To understand Land Back priorities/actions in a Turtle Island context: www.landback.org

Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network: www.seedmob.org.au

Old media articles on the eviction of Indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in India:

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/land-grab-tribal-people-india-adivasi
• https://www.iwgia.org/en/india/3314-millions-of-indigenous-peoples-facing-eviction-india.html

Imagine if Indigenous Peoples were included throughout #DontLookUp instead of only being tokenized at the end. https://t.co/JloiKC1CtZ

— Mackenzie C. Harris {she/they} (@kenzieeharriss) December 31, 2021

Links from Nick:

Examples of discussions around Indigenous critiques of Don’t Look Up and/or Indigenous contributions to the environmental movement:

• https://www.climate-uni.com/post/climate-change-indigenous-knowledge-learning-from-losing-alaska
• https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-indigenous-resistance-is-post-apocalyptic-with-nick-estes
• Todd, Zoe. 2016. “An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ is Just Another Word for Colonialism.” Journal of Historical Sociology 29:1, 4-22.
• Search ‘#dontlookup indigenous’ on Twitter for more of these discussions.

Settler colonialism can’t stop capitalism from killing us.

In Don’t Look Up, the Subaru Telescope detects a planet-destroying comet. The film doesn’t just erase Indigenous presence, it conceals the fact that the telescope was built on stolen Hawaiian land at Mauna Kea. https://t.co/iGH5itF5as

— Uahikea Maile (@uahikea) January 2, 2022

Sources on whiteness in the environmental movement:

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/green-groups-too-white-too-male-other-sectors-report
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/numbers-don-t-lie-green-movement-remains-overwhelmingly-white-report-n1253972

tfw market incentives are definitely going to save us pic.twitter.com/SgIwBYrv87

— Gelfling Uprising ⚙️♦️ (@kickitinthesun) February 1, 2022

• You can hear Jon, a listener of our show, discuss being Maori AND vegan on episode 202 of our show.
• You can also hear Nick discuss sentience and the non-human world (among many other topics) on episode 88 of the Sentientism podcast.

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Music:

Treaty ’18 by Yothu Yindi and Gavin Campbell, ft Baker Boy; Shadows by Briggs ft. Troy Cassar-Daley.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.