We All Live on Permafrost(sapiens.org)

37 pointsby CapitalistCartr5 tahun yang lalu15 comments

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/climate-change-siberia/

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fouc5 tahun yang lalu

> Ultimately, my goal is challenging the hegemony of scientific knowledge and neoliberal “solutions” to climate change by bringing to light the depth and breadth of different ways of knowing the world. My central tenet: We need to engage all relevant knowledge systems to find enduring solutions to our shared predicament. This includes revaluing and repatriating Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems, both through policy changes and Indigenous activism, within a world from which they were systematically disqualified and subjugated.

A worthy goal.

Zababa5 tahun yang lalu

I have honestly no idea of what they mean by this.

beebeepka5 tahun yang lalu

I think it means stop ignoring knowledge coming from formally uneducated people.

Worthy cause, if so

Zababa5 tahun yang lalu

Wouldn't this be more "unformally educated" people? Since they're talking about indigenous people, that have a form of knowledge but that knowledge doesn't fit the "formal knowledge" as in "knowledge of people that go to college or read book"? Though even with that I don't know what it's supposed to mean. That indigenous people will be "sacrificed" because our solutions won't protect their way of living? That's probably true, however I thought that this was always assumed that the neoliberal solutions would be best at protecting the neoliberal societies, and not the other.

My tentative of translation: "Indigenous people's way of life are not taken into account currently when considering solutions to climate change, and I want to change that.". The idea seem noble, but considering how little everyone (individual, companies, "the Establishment", shape-shifting lizards) is doing currently, I don't think indigenous people's way of life is our priority.

bojan5 tahun yang lalu

> I think it means stop ignoring knowledge coming from formally uneducated people.

The problem is that the signal-to-noise ratio there is very low, and it takes a lot of patience and effort to extract the knowledge.

jprupp5 tahun yang lalu

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