Whose earth is it anyway?

Into the Anthropocene

Humans now change the Earth’s systems more than all other natural forces combined…but are we all equally responsible?

In this episode, Sarain talks to scholars Zoe Todd and Heather Davis about decolonizing the Anthropocene. Then we break down the term “environmental racism” with Dr. Ingrid Waldron, sociologist and author of There’s Something in the Water, and discuss the effects of climate change in the Arctic with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit rights advocate and the author of The Right to be Cold.

For more information:

Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene: www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1539

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right to Be Cold-One Woman’s Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417373/the-right-to-be-cold-by-sheila-watt-cloutier/9780143187646

Ingrid R.G. Waldron, There’s Something in the Water-Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/there8217s-something-in-the-water

The ENRICH Project: www.enrichproject.org/

This episode was produced by Nadia Abraham, Shiralee Hudson Hill and Matthew Scott at the Art Gallery of Ontario. For more information on the podcast and the Anthropocene exhibition, visit our website: www.ago.ca.