Category: Earth Intelligence

Legal Recognition of the Sacredness of the Earth: Rights of Nature

The current legal framework supports an unsustainable economic paradigm. It is based on the same principles as limitless growth. In this system, we assume that we can consume endlessly, and there will be no repercussions. We go about our business with the false notion that we are separate from nature; that humans are so dominant upon the Earth that we do not need to rely on nature for our survival. But this underlying belief is a falsehood.

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Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

“While western science and educastion tend to emphasize compartmentalized knowledge which is often de-contextualized and taugh in the detached setting of a classroom or laboratory, indigenous people have traditionally acquired their knowledge through direct experience in the natural world. For them, the particulars come to be understood in relation to the whole, and the ‘laws' are continually tested in the context of everyday survival.”  — Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley schoolingtheworld.org

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