Earth Guardians

I created this piece in November 2021, before I traveled to the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP26 as I was thinking about the importance of standing in solidarity with Indigenous, Black and marginalized communities throughout the world who have been the most impacted by the climate crisis.

Colonization and white supremacy caused the climate crisis. Over 500 years ago, European nations invaded Turtle Island and committed mass genocide, destroying the ecosystems and pillaging the land. They also created a holocaust through the stealing and exploitation of African people in order to build a global economy. Stolen land and stolen labor is the basis of an economic system that still lives on today. We must understand that the roots of climate chaos happened when Europeans invaded and commodified human beings, animals, forests, oceans and the Earth itself. Therefore, we cannot achieve climate justice nor climate solutions without indigenous sovereignty,...