| Abstract | Kyle Powys Whyte, an Indigenous scientist and climate change expert, says Indigenous peoples have led some of the most vibrant climate change movements, focused on repairing and strengthening ethical and just relationships. Mistakenly, many environmentalists focus on an environmental crisis that must be addressed so urgently and swiftly, that relationships don't matter, he says. |
| Notes | '“\"Nobody asks whether the researchers and the countries that propose different approaches to geoengineering have good enough relationships with Indigenous people for an Indigenous community to even feel that it had the voice to consent, to decide or to express what it thought about geoengineering,\" Whyte said. \"So how could anybody propose geoengineering as a way to a clean energy future, sustainable future, if reconciliation hasn\'t occurred with Indigenous peoples and there\'s no respect for Indigenous sovereignty?\"“\n\n - Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn'
'“A document, Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives was submitted to the Department of Interior Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science in May 2014.\nThe report informs climate scientists on things like \"Free, Prior and Informed Consent,\" Indigenous rights, culturally-appropriate terms of reference, writing and reviewing grant proposals that recognize the value of traditional knowledges, and acknowledging the risks for Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge carriers in climate change and climate change strategies.”\n\n - Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn'
'“Whyte published a paper looking at the ways in which Indigenous people are \"discussed when people put approaches that geoengineering on the table.\" In his research, he found, that \"in the world of geoengineering, everybody is concerned with whether Indigenous people agree with geoengineering or not.\" Most people involved with geoengineering solutions, ask whether they\'ll go along with it or fight it, he said, rather than whether or not there has been consent established.”\n\n - Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn'
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