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Transformation
From: Changing Tides
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In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next many millennia; asking whether we as human beings will decide to ditch or accept our collective identity and fight for the collective future of our planet. Reflecting on how there is still more to be done and as the First Nations continue to heal, re-empower themselves, apply traditional laws to shut down commercial fisheries, revive stories that speak of responsibility to all living things, they chose to do so while leaving behind, for the most part, the tribalism of old. Arguing that the resilience of First Nations communities provides the wider society, on both the individual and societal levels, a transformational blueprint for how to manage and survive the shock, disruption, and systemic horror of colonization had on their communities and traditional ways of life. Ending with the idea that through the coming together of people and the use of both traditional and modern ways of knowing we can have a resurgence into something more peaceful than before, without losing sight of the philosophy of kinship with our non-human relatives that the entire world needs if it is to steer towards a more benign Anthropocene.
Contributors
Alejandro Frid
Alejandro Frid, Ph.D., an ecologist for First Nations of British Columbia’s Central Coast and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, has for over two decades inhabited the worlds of science, modern Indigenous cultures, and climate activism. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia.
