"Indigenous peoples proven to sustain biodiversity and address climate change: Now it's time to recognize and support this leadership" is the title of an article available through the ScienceDirect platform. It's widely recognized that lands stewarded by Indigenous people contain 80 per cent of the world's biodiversity and that it's important to support Indigenous-led resistance to further fossil fuel development if we want a livable planet for future generations.
Meanwhile, the Canadian government has declared September 30 as the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
What a shock that just days before the official holiday, the Canadian Energy Regulator gave TMX the go-ahead to change its original route so the pipeline will now be allowed to go through land Stk'emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation says has "profound spiritual and cultural significance" to its people.
It's rather symbolic; this is the nation which first announced the finding of 215 likely burial sites of children who were sent to the residential school on its territory.
If you find it abhorrent that we, taxpayers, are funding not only a climate-chaos-inducing pipeline, but also the further violation of Indigenous rights, you're not alone.
Jan Slakov,
qathet Climate Alliance
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