The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change Audiobook (Free)

One cannot turn on the news today with out a report on an extreme-weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians claim, the truth is that weather change has already been here. Nobody does know this much better than Indigenous individuals who, having created an intimate romantic relationship with ecosystems over generations, have noticed these changes for many years. To them, climate change is not an abstract idea or policy concern, but the actuality of daily life. After two decades of operating about The Archipelago of Wish: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Weather Change with indigenous neighborhoods, Gleb Raygorodetsky displays how these communities are in fact islands of natural and cultural diversity in the ever-rising sea of development and urbanization. These are an “archipelago of wish” even as we enter the Anthropocene, for here lies humankind’s best chance to keep in mind our root base and how exactly to take care of the Earth. These neighborhoods are implementing creative solutions to meet these modern problems. Solutions that are highly relevant to ordinary people. We meet up with the Skolt Sami of Finland, the Nenets and Altai of Russia, the Sapara of Ecuador, the Karen of Myanmar, and the Tla-o-qui-aht of Canada. Intimate portraits of the women and men, youngsters and elders, emerge against the backdrop of their traditional methods on land and drinking water. Although there are brutal realties-pollution, corruption, pressured assimilation?Raygorodetsky’s prose resonates with the positive, the adaptive, the spiritual?and hope.