Ever since I read Leah Thomas's intersectional environmentalism my eyes have become motivated to change my life. The story of black and brown people in this country who believed in environmental justice should no longer be ignored. Intersectional Environmentalist is a topic I'm so grateful to have learned about. Let's keep this content going.
What an EXCELLENT video! I want to share this with Middle and Senior Years schools in our division to facilitate meaningful discussions with students in Indigenous Education studies. Thank you!
Need so much more of this. In France where I live politicians and the government have started to say that words like "decolonization" or "intersectionality" are silly to use in this country because apparently "we're not like the US which is where they come from", and "France doesn't have a problem with racism or environmental justice"... which is just ... crazy. Whereas people that live in former enslaved french islands, and indigenous communities (when recognized, bc there's also a problem with that) are still considered second-class citizens, and Fr still has a hold on its former colonies. Anyway, keep up the excellent work!! It's truly amazing
I love the historical counts of intersectionality and referencing the roots and how far back it really goes. It's truly not anything new it's so important that people become educated on this. Can't wait to see how this channel grows ✨
What I have never understood is the obviously incorrect modern notion that "Native Americans" (I used quotes because they were MANY people, they were not all the same) called the area of what is now the United States "Turtle Island" when there is no way that ALL the great multitudes of tribes that existed on North America shared any of the same words over all of them. It had to of been an Indigenous term that came from a single tribe, or grouping of tribes, that later became popularized as what "Native Americans" called it. Update: I looked it up. It was tribes from the northeast of what is now the United States, namely the Iroquois that called Earth that, and since the 60s and 70s the term has grown alot.
It was originally a term used by the North Eastern indigenous of the US (and possibly east Canada), namely the Iroquois confederacy. And it refered to Earth, makes sense because indigenous so far back before colonization wouldn't of known about the continental layout, so the land or Earth would of been the land or Earth, not, this continent or that continent.
Ok, but tracking data and events is modern not "western", it's used in all countries, and by climate scientists and environmental scientists who are dead serious about understanding our effects on the planet used analytics and data sets. Those data sets are the only way we know the specific extent of environmental degradation. I think that type of logic is a bit too far. It's an absolute logical fallacy to say that because a tool was used in a biased and inaccurate way that the tool or method itself is to be thrown out.
This is painful to listen to. Can't get over how racist this kind of intersectional language becomes when people who don't understand what they're talking about try to be "activists." Just like the made-up term "two spirit", which did not appear in literature from any known tribe or culture until a the early 1990s, the idea of native cultures having any kind of consensus on North America is absurd. The term "turtle island" came from, as far as we can tell, perhaps one or two tribes--until the late 20th century when it became popularized by activists once again. Today's intersectional environmental movement is so removed from the landscape and from WILDERNESS, that ideas like changing the definition of "nature" to include inner city parks is held up as a kind of solution. This is at best a distraction while technocratic corporatism hijacks climate policy to push their own technocratic agendas. This is not about nature. It is about critical race theory and intersectionalism--which, on their own, might be great. But they simply confuse and obfuscate the real issues we are facing today--deforestation, overfishing, and truly apocalyptic agricultural practices. This is just... enraging. Teaching kids that all Native cultures thought like 21st century upper middle class hipsters--basically pimping out their histories to push the Green New Deal. Google it. The Green New Deal is an environmental disaster designed by billionaire technocrats. It will require insane amounts of new mining operations digging for precious metals, and most of those metals are found beneath the pristine waters of Minnesota's Boundary Water Canoe Area and throughout Superior National Forest. If theres teens out there reading this, do your own research. This movement is fostered mostly by white, suburban, wealthy children of elites whose only experience of wilderness and nature is taking selfies in front of some mountain or lake. The Green New Deal is absolutely catastrophic for our most pristine wetlands, and is a thinly veiled attempt for smart tech corporations to seize the power from the fossil fuel cabal in the name of nature. It is simply more of the same, but appropriating the language of environmentalism and intersectionality.
Ever since I read Leah Thomas's intersectional environmentalism my eyes have become motivated to change my life. The story of black and brown people in this country who believed in environmental justice should no longer be ignored. Intersectional Environmentalist is a topic I'm so grateful to have learned about. Let's keep this content going.
The future is intersectional! And it starts with education like this :)
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This is wonderful and essential for all climate activists. Thank you for putting it together 💚
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The environmental history we SHOULD have been taught in school 💗✨
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This is beautifully made (and very informative) first explainer everyone! Well done!
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This is an incredible dive into brightening the timeline on environmentalism. Thank you for providing us this education!
What an EXCELLENT video! I want to share this with Middle and Senior Years schools in our division to facilitate meaningful discussions with students in Indigenous Education studies. Thank you!
such a comprehensive story! + beautiful editing and narration
🌞✨ all thanks to our talented IE team
Need so much more of this. In France where I live politicians and the government have started to say that words like "decolonization" or "intersectionality" are silly to use in this country because apparently "we're not like the US which is where they come from", and "France doesn't have a problem with racism or environmental justice"... which is just ... crazy. Whereas people that live in former enslaved french islands, and indigenous communities (when recognized, bc there's also a problem with that) are still considered second-class citizens, and Fr still has a hold on its former colonies. Anyway, keep up the excellent work!! It's truly amazing
Good work team!! so amazing
I love the historical counts of intersectionality and referencing the roots and how far back it really goes. It's truly not anything new it's so important that people become educated on this. Can't wait to see how this channel grows ✨
sooo much gold in this video! thank you for providing a more inclusive overview of the environmental movement. ✳️
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An marvelous masterpiece! Thanks a lot for making this great video! It's so inspiring!
So excited to have these stories shared ✨💗
let's uplift BIPOC voices in the environmental movement ✨✨
I found you on IG and really love your work. That video is so well down and it's such an important message! Keep fighting! 💚✊
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This is the history lesson we need ✨
This video needs way more attention
This is very informative and beautifully made.
wow this is so good :')) made the info so accessible + easy to watch and learn
Such a necessary, educational video 👏🏼💛
Do you have any overlooked BIPOC environmentalist authors that you recommend starting with?
well done 👏🏽
Thank you for this. Beautiful work.
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Yes! Thank you for sharing this!! 👏👏👏
So insightful and loved the graphics! Tysm for this incredible work ❤️
BIPOC to the front of environmental history 🌞🌏🌱🐛🤎🙏🏽🌿
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Very great video essay here! Loved the timeline.
Thank you so much for this video and the work you do.
Thank you!!!!
Where should I start learning more as most of these points brought up being my first time hearing about?
This is such a great video, but the title should really read An Intersectional History of Envronmentalism *in the US*
Holy shit I had to watch this for a class and I've never been so bored.
Like don't get me wrong it's a well-done video, I just have 0 interest in this. At all. I'm falling asleep. F school.
Hey, let's agree to all call it, Enviromentalityism
Beautiful and important but I fear that the high level language makes this very difficult for the average person to understand and engage.
What I have never understood is the obviously incorrect modern notion that "Native Americans" (I used quotes because they were MANY people, they were not all the same) called the area of what is now the United States "Turtle Island" when there is no way that ALL the great multitudes of tribes that existed on North America shared any of the same words over all of them.
It had to of been an Indigenous term that came from a single tribe, or grouping of tribes, that later became popularized as what "Native Americans" called it.
Update: I looked it up. It was tribes from the northeast of what is now the United States, namely the Iroquois that called Earth that, and since the 60s and 70s the term has grown alot.
Revisionist history at its best.
Title incomplete, "in the U.S." missing.
Thats a 10
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Isn't Turtle Island the entire "North America" continent, and not just the US?
It was originally a term used by the North Eastern indigenous of the US (and possibly east Canada), namely the Iroquois confederacy. And it refered to Earth, makes sense because indigenous so far back before colonization wouldn't of known about the continental layout, so the land or Earth would of been the land or Earth, not, this continent or that continent.
Ok, but tracking data and events is modern not "western", it's used in all countries, and by climate scientists and environmental scientists who are dead serious about understanding our effects on the planet used analytics and data sets. Those data sets are the only way we know the specific extent of environmental degradation.
I think that type of logic is a bit too far. It's an absolute logical fallacy to say that because a tool was used in a biased and inaccurate way that the tool or method itself is to be thrown out.
This has 0 to do with the environment, only social issues.
This is painful to listen to. Can't get over how racist this kind of intersectional language becomes when people who don't understand what they're talking about try to be "activists." Just like the made-up term "two spirit", which did not appear in literature from any known tribe or culture until a the early 1990s, the idea of native cultures having any kind of consensus on North America is absurd. The term "turtle island" came from, as far as we can tell, perhaps one or two tribes--until the late 20th century when it became popularized by activists once again.
Today's intersectional environmental movement is so removed from the landscape and from WILDERNESS, that ideas like changing the definition of "nature" to include inner city parks is held up as a kind of solution.
This is at best a distraction while technocratic corporatism hijacks climate policy to push their own technocratic agendas.
This is not about nature. It is about critical race theory and intersectionalism--which, on their own, might be great. But they simply confuse and obfuscate the real issues we are facing today--deforestation, overfishing, and truly apocalyptic agricultural practices.
This is just... enraging. Teaching kids that all Native cultures thought like 21st century upper middle class hipsters--basically pimping out their histories to push the Green New Deal.
Google it.
The Green New Deal is an environmental disaster designed by billionaire technocrats. It will require insane amounts of new mining operations digging for precious metals, and most of those metals are found beneath the pristine waters of Minnesota's Boundary Water Canoe Area and throughout Superior National Forest.
If theres teens out there reading this, do your own research. This movement is fostered mostly by white, suburban, wealthy children of elites whose only experience of wilderness and nature is taking selfies in front of some mountain or lake.
The Green New Deal is absolutely catastrophic for our most pristine wetlands, and is a thinly veiled attempt for smart tech corporations to seize the power from the fossil fuel cabal in the name of nature. It is simply more of the same, but appropriating the language of environmentalism and intersectionality.