Gil Friend argues we should treat the world as a living partner, not a resource warehouse. He references indigenous climate activist Gia Bastida's question at the UN: when did caring for each other and the Earth stop being culture and become a movement?
How do we engender a premise that we are. That we are part of a living world to be lived with and danced with, not a dead. Not a dead warehouse that's filled with dead resources waiting to be extracted and used and thrown somewhere? Gia Bastida, Mexican Chilean climate activist and member of the indigenous Otomi Toltec nation, asked at the UN a few years ago, when did it become a movement to take care of each other and the earth that should just be our culture?
