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Beyond Fossil Fuels

29 Aug 2016

And it gets harder and people [have] an opportunity to recover land and culturally harder to stop it.” based traditions in the context of a new set of technologies For several hundred years, Indigenous communities and a new millennium…by democratizing power produc- across the world have been at the forefront of resistance tion, Native nations are providing the solutions that all of us to ecologica [...] The caused inequality and the levels of poverty, unemploy- benefits of such a change are laid out in detail in the pages ment, and lack of access to education so devastatingly re- that follow, along with the need to acquire greater resourc- corded in this report, are a microcosm of struggles around es for the retention of Indigenous language, cultural and the world. [...] A prosperous path forward can be guided by the framework for sustainable development embraced by the Canada and other nations in the context of the Rio+20 vision of “The Future We Want” and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. [...] According to reports cient to meet their basic needs for food, heating, and compiled in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation other basic necessities.19 Commission12, the evidence suggests that the Cana- dian government tried for over 100 years to eliminate A Tale of Two Economies the culture and language of the Indigenous people of Like most regions of the world where Indigenous life- Canada; res [...] Inuit were told people successfully straddle tradition and innovation, they were being moved for their own good, in order ‘the land’ and the Iternet.”20 to ensure their survival in the face of food shortages and other problems in Inukjuak, Quebec and would be The Indigenous Inuit economy provided housing and better hunting grounds in Grise In the Indigenous economy, economic activity (provi- Fiord
ISBN
9780994954343
Pages
64
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA