Can our global community really thrive in -- and when it comes right down to it, do we really want to live in -- a world where love and care have been delegitimized and dominated by other forces? This question is reflective of a struggle alive and well in predominant colonial and capitalist cultures which have relegated love and care to the domain of personal relationships and invalidated it as a credible consideration in political, economic, scientific, and business decision making. It has been effectively cost-benefited out of the equation.
The diminished presence of love and care has contributed to environmental and social injustice for centuries and more recently to injustice and maladaptation in the face of climate change. For climate adaptation strategies to avoid maladaptation and to work instead toward a more just, equitable, and sustainable future for all, love and care must play a vital and credible role in HOW we work together to respond to climate change.
This presentation will share a framework for transformative adaptation to climate change with love and care as a strategy to push open the constraints of colonial and capitalist systems and structures. It will discuss how a co-learning partnership of Indigenous and Indigenous-serving partners with long-term, meaningful relationships wove together an infrastructure of love and care, a commons, to co-create Indigenous and local, place-based community climate indicators and metrics and share in solidarity climate adaptation strategies. This presentation will discuss how this group of partners nurtured an infrastructure of love and care and the challenges and opportunities in continuing to grow, together. The presentation will also weave in additional relevant partner experiences.
