195. The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice with Osprey Orielle Lake (Part 2)

May 24, 2024

29:54

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Osprey Orielle Lake is back in Part 2 of our conversation about women's roles in healing the land and the work for environmental justice. We discuss the myth of whiteness and hear her discuss how we can reconnect with nature by looking to the earth for our indigenous roots. Osprey discusses the work that WECAN is doing in lifting up Black and indigenous voices in the environmental space. She speaks on how harmful practices like fracking, fossil fuel extraction, and deforestation on indigenous lands and communities of color in the United States is a reflection of systemic racism. In this conversation, we come to a better understanding of how race and poverty are linked to climate injustices by drawing connections between the degradation of land and the targeting of marginalized communities.

Topics Discussed

· The Myth of Whiteness

· Reconnecting to the Land

· Addressing the Problems of the Land

· Reconnecting Ancestral Roots & Practices

· White Supremacy’s Stain on Environmentalism

· Race & Identity

· Disproportionate Impact on BIPOC communtities

· Destroying Lands

· The Desire of Community and Identity

· The Emptiness of Wanting to Belong

· Consumerism & Imbalance