Description European encountered climates in northern North America that were harsher and more variable than their notions about weather and geography led them to expect. In A Temperate Empire, Anya Zilberstein reveals how colonial conditions […]
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The Right to be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
Description Watt-Cloutier gives a biographical account of her work on climate justice in the Arctic region. She discusses her perspective on climate change coming from an Indigenous community perspective. Her notion “the right to be […]
Re-Thinking Colonialism to Prepare for the Impacts of Rapid Environmental Change
Description Reo and Parker discuss how landscape change similar to what people are concerned about with climate change today has a long history in certain regions. In what is now called the Eastern U.S., colonialism […]