Podcast out of UVic uplifts Indigenous women leading the climate fight
CAPITAL, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUL 14 – The podcast features Indigenous women leaders sharing climate advocacy and intergenerational knowledge to inspire sustainable solutions, highlighting the disproportionate impacts on Indigenous communities.
- A Radical Act of Hope is a short podcast led by women and produced by the University of Victoria’s Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, highlighting Inuk advocate Siila Watt-Cloutier and the leadership of Indigenous voices in climate action.
- The podcast emerges from global climate anxiety and highlights Watt-Cloutier’s 2005 legal petition linking U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to Inuit human rights violations.
- Hosts Ian Mauro and Janna Wale guide conversations featuring voices like former Greenland premier Aleqa Hammond, emphasizing Arctic issues as global and Indigenous wisdom as vital medicine.
- Mauro describes the show as about "activism within" and collaboration, while Wale notes it differs from typical climate media by centering Indigenous and women's stories of impact.
- The series combines intergenerational knowledge with advocacy to inform solutions, suggesting lived experience can power personal and policy transformation globally.
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