Climate Action with Kyle Whyte
Overthink
Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.
4.7 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What resources do Indigenous studies provide for addressing the crisis of human-made climate change? And how is the climate crisis linked to settler colonialism? In episode 174 of Overthink, Ellie and David chat with Indigenous philosopher and activist Kyle Whyte about his work on climate action. They discuss how Indigenous people are often blocked out of conversations about environmental impact, the common mischaracterization of the land back movement, and the importance of kinship. How are certain groups disproportionately affected by climate change? Is climate change actually a new problem? And how can respecting land rights of Indigenous people offer some solutions to climate change? In the Substack bonus segment, your hosts question who is called upon to respond to the crisis of climate change and how non-Indigenous people should engage in discussions surrounding climate change and colonialism.
Works Discussed:
Kyle Whyte, “Climate Action at the Speed of Consent”
Kyle Whyte, “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene”
Kyle Whyte, “Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Overthink. |
| 0:18.3 | The podcast where two professors put philosophy and dialogue with everyday life. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm David Peña Guzman. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm Ellie Anderson. |
| 0:26.6 | As always, for an extended version of this episode with community discussion and more, |
| 0:30.6 | join Overthink's substack. |
| 0:32.6 | Climate change is an undeniable reality. |
| 0:36.6 | And it is one that forces us to take a pretty hard look |
| 0:40.5 | at our life, at our values, at our consumption habits, and change them in a pretty radical |
| 0:47.3 | fashion if we hope to change or avoid some of the darker consequences of anthropogenic climate change. |
| 0:56.2 | According to the United Nations, the Earth now is about 1.42 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in the pre-industrial era. |
| 1:05.3 | And the decade lasting from 2015 to 2024 was the warmest decade in all recorded history. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah. And although the effects of climate change are ones that scientists have been |
| 1:18.6 | warning us about for decades, as the years have passed, especially in just the past few years, |
| 1:23.5 | I think, more and more of us have been experiencing these effects in more and more places all over the world firsthand. |
| 1:30.1 | This has been part of this spike in climate anxiety, the younger generation's feelings that the world is going to be unlivable for them, which are not just like feelings coming out of nowhere, but coming as a result of scientist's warnings. |
| 1:43.9 | And I think that leads, |
| 1:45.2 | at least for me, to a lot of uncertainty and even despair, just like, what do we do about this? |
| 1:51.9 | Is anybody doing anything about this? And I know the answer to that is, yes, people are doing things |
| 1:56.3 | about it, but there are also all kinds of people who are doing terrible things to worsen it |
| 2:00.4 | all the time. |
| 2:01.6 | And so I think this is a topic that just brings up a lot of fear and anxiety for so many of us. |
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