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Read: Klein (2013) Estes (2017) Davis & Todd (2017) (on BB) Whyte (2017) (on BB) Burman (2017) (on BB) Klein (2013) Klein interviews Leanne Simpson as she attempts to understand indigenous protests against the destruction of the environment and indigenous people's resistance against colonialism. Indigenous people are resistant to acts of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism to protect their lands, cultures, and nationhood from deteriorating. She is given insight into the resemblance between extraction and assimilation and colonialism and capitalism. Furthermore, colonialism continues to be a huge problem even during current times because it continues to evolve into different extortion methods both towards people and the environment, hence, the current climate crisis. Estes (2017) Estes provides an in-depth account of the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, pointing out the continued colonization and oppression of indigenous people and how this remains part of the major reason the world is facing a climate crisis. The pipeline was to pass through part of an area within the Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, but because of the economic benefits of this pipeline, it was deemed fit that it passes through this region. This is a form of climate injustice and disregard for the USA's indigenous populations and their environment. The Oceti Sakowin people have a long history of opposing the imperialistic maneuvers meant to push them away since the colonialism era. This situation is a depiction of the lack of indigenous climate justice driven by imperialism and capitalism. Davis & Todd (2017) Davis and Todd argue that any Anthropocene discussions remain incomplete if they do not involve the indigenous discourse. They propose that the debate regarding significant human impacts on earth's geology should include the colonization period of the Americas. Currently, the framing of the Anthropocene is mainly Eurocentric, but it should be framed from the beginning of the colonial era, considering that colonialism sits among the top causes of the current environmental crises. Therefore, Davis and Todd's point is that the Anthropocene is not a new event, and associating it with the mid-20 th century is wrong. It is a continuous process that began long before but intensified with time. Hence, the focus must be on undermining the conditions that it names through a decolonization process.

Whyte (2017) Whyte believes that significant knowledge of anthropogenic climate change can be gathered from indigenous studies considering the information obtained from the stories, lessons, and long histories of how indigenous people adapted to environmental/climatic changes. He considers the current climate change issues as an issue of intensified colonialism that began through indigenous communities' colonization. Through colonization emerged other similar philosophies such as capitalism that further intensified the problem by laying the groundwork for industrialization and militarization. Therefore, these activities became the roots of the current anthropogenic climate change. Overall, the colonization of the indigenous peoples offset the Anthropocene, and the best solution involves renewing indigenous knowledge, which is capable of offering significant decolonization approaches in addressing climate change. Burman (2017) Burman takes a solid stand in his belief that climate justice and global cognitive justice are intertwined. This argument ascertains that climate justice cannot be discussed using a single concept but different forms of knowledge. Burman takes into account the issue of climate change from a political angle where indigenous people or people of indigenous origin receive much of the blame. However, this blame game is insignificant considering that it does not acknowledge several facts, such as the correlation between individual income and ecological and carbon footprints. Thus, blaming a small-scale farmer, for instance, would be wrong. The issue here is the lack of proper understanding of climate change because the political ontology of climate change cannot be understood if people cannot establish the relationship between political, social, and economic factors and their contributions to climate change. Common Theme: Indigenous knowledge is critical in the understanding of what resulted in the current crisis the world is facing, and it could potentially be the key to a sustainable solution. However, indigenous people continue to fall under pressure for their unwillingness to concur with human activities that threaten the integrity of their environment. However, their long history and knowledge of the environment and the will to conserve it is what is getting overlooked, and it is high time indigenous knowledge is considered as a significant piece of information that can help revitalize the environment and reduce climate change. Questions: - How is it that indigenous populations continue getting put in situations where they look like the enemies of progress despite having genuine reasons to protect the environment? - Should a law be passed that ultimately prevents any form of eternal intrusion on indigenous lands and property? - Is decolonization a feasible approach to climate change mitigation?

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