Excellent piece by @MaxLiboiron. I’m fascinated by one of his premise: that decolonizing geoscience requires liberating local & Indigenous ways of knowing, ontologically, from characterization as ‘heritage’ … /1

https://twitter.com/natureecoevo/status/1466710403635949572

…as when he writes that colonialism assumes the “l’universal superiority of civilized, Western ways of knowing and doing. Local and indigenous way of knowing are considered insufficient or simply heritage.’

In other words, the heritage label defangs, marginalises IK /2

#WeAreBackIn! As the United States re-joins the #ParisAgreement, there's no better time to spotlight the central role that culture and heritage can & must play in transformative climate action. A THREAD.
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#ClimateHeritage The @ICOMOS #FutureOfOurPasts report outlines the myriad ways cultural heritage supports achieving #ParisAgreement targets, incl heightening the ambition & capacity of communities to act, supporting climate adaptation, contributing to GHG mitigation & addressing loss & damage. /2

On the 5th anniversary of the #ParisAgreement, the General Assembly of @ICOMOS (the global cultural heritage NGO) has overwhelmingly voted to declare a Climate & Ecological Emergency.
A THREAD /1
icomos.org/en/focus/clima…
#Parisversaire #CultureDeclaresEmergency #ClimateHeritage In 2017 @ICOMOS committed to mobilising for #ClimateAction, recognising that unprecedented concentrations of anthropogenic GHGs were changing the climate, it committed to delivering cultural heritage-based solutions to implement the #ParisAgreement.
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public.3.basecamp.com/p/juW883Soihrb…