Dr. M JACKSON on the Teachings of Glacial Beings /111

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🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this conversation with Ayana and Dr. Jackson, we learn how glacial retreat is impacting communities, the connection between extractive tourism, extractive science, and glaciers, why it matters that the majority of glaciology has been produced by white men, and the ways in which polar and mountain explorations have furthered colonial, capitalist, and imperialist projects. Support the show

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1:03.0	This is not easy research, and it's much easier to homogenize ice or tie it together geographically, get a metric for it.
1:12.0	Glaciers in this area are melting X amount, and then publish it.
1:16.4	That gives us data that we can hold on to, but it doesn't tell us all that much about
1:21.2	the human condition.
1:27.0	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Andrew Stors sitting in today for Iana Young.
1:30.9	Iana's conversation today is with Dr. M. Jackson.
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