80% of the world's biodiversity lives within native territories, indigenous territories.

There are also studies that show that returning indigenous title to communities in the Amazon

can help protect the Amazon, which is obviously sort of furthering climate goals.

In Canada, they have a program called the Guardian Watchman program, which basically

empowers First Nations to be environmental stewards. So basically, like, the federal government is

returning jurisdiction to Native nations to preserve habitats and homelands to, in part, serve as carbon

sinks. And all of these things actually, like, could be a really essential

part of fighting climate change. Like, if we are going to reduce emissions, yes, we need to, like,

build a lot more wind and solar, but we also need to make sure that, like, the natural habitats

that, like, preserve biodiversity and suck a lot of the carbon out of the atmosphere,

don't, like, get wrecked and like native people

actually could play a pretty significant role in that kind of a thing. And so I don't know if it's so

much the issue. I mean the issue is certainly that people feel that what has happened to native

people can't be undone. Right. Like, I don't think anyone is really

seriously suggesting that, like, people should go back to the continents that they came from and,

you know, leave the United States. But I do think that there is an issue of, like, visibility here,

like, wherein, like, because it's just so normal not to think about native people, not to see them,

not to sort of consider, you know, that they are still here and that we, you know, are demanding

justice that we are leading movements like at Standing Rock.

That makes it very hard for people to even ask the question about like what would it mean to include

native people and sort of a more just form of of politics.