S3 - EPISODE 2:
MILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS
MOTHERS
MEET THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
EPISODE 2:
MILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS
The IPCC uses the Industrial Revolution as the keystone for human-induced climate change. But there is a different marker for black, brown and indigenous peoples who have also been measuring climate change for generations. European colonization brought not only systemic violence, but irreparable, environmental damage to small-scale agrarian and subsistence societies all over the world.
In no coincidence, those same former colonies are some of the most deeply ravaged by climate change. Today, the UN’s Green Climate Fund and Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss & Damage seek to reconcile these inequalities. But how did native people adapt to natural changes in climate before colonization? And if justice is unlikely to be served by humility, how can colonial impact be quantified, argued and won?
Archaeologist and Penn State professor, Kristina Douglass talks about her life’s work on colonization and climate in Madagascar. And in the Philippines, Lidy Nacpil, of the Asian People’s Movement on Debt & Development shares her life after Marcos and the fight for reparations on the global stage.
Episode Credits
Mothers of Invention is brought to you by Vulcan Productions and Doc Society.
Executive producers: Jody Allen, Ruth Johnston, Matt Milios as well as Jess Search & Beadie Finzi.
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Series producer: Thimali Kodikara
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