Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 30, 2020 3:54:53 GMT 12
CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPTOM OF OBSESSION WITH GROWTH, SAYS YOUNG LEADER
"If we are really serious about climate justice in Aotearoa, we need to really think about how we are going to transform our country to truly honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) and allow for Māori tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) which was promised in Te Tiriti."
Haylee Koroi from the Māori and Pasifika youth collective, Te Ara Whatu, said Māori involved in the climate movement didn't always want to focus their energy on decolonisation.
But injustices arising from colonisation continued to hamper indigenous leadership, which was needed to tackle climate change, Koroi said.
Dismantling colonial and capitalist systems was necessary as part of the climate movement, because the premise of those systems was to exploit, Koroi said......
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/119994801/climate-change-symptom-of-obsession-with-growth-says-young-leader
"If we are really serious about climate justice in Aotearoa, we need to really think about how we are going to transform our country to truly honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) and allow for Māori tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) which was promised in Te Tiriti."
Haylee Koroi from the Māori and Pasifika youth collective, Te Ara Whatu, said Māori involved in the climate movement didn't always want to focus their energy on decolonisation.
But injustices arising from colonisation continued to hamper indigenous leadership, which was needed to tackle climate change, Koroi said.
Dismantling colonial and capitalist systems was necessary as part of the climate movement, because the premise of those systems was to exploit, Koroi said......
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/119994801/climate-change-symptom-of-obsession-with-growth-says-young-leader