Happy Earth Month! Many people think of climate change as something that will affect the world equally sometime in the distant future. But that’s not true. Some communities are already experiencing the effects. Join special guest host Jen Everett and producers Christiane Wisehart and Sandra Bertin as we learn how to challenge our thinking about the environment with scholar Kyle Whyte.

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Show Notes:

• Kyle Whyte, Timnick Chair in the Humanities and Associate Professor of Philosophy & Community Sustainability at Michigan State University
• “Food Sovereignty, Justice and Indigenous Peoples: An Essay on Settler Colonialism and Collective Continuance” by Kyle Whyte
• “Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies” by Kyle Whyte and Chris Cuomo
• Citizen Potawatami Nation
• Jennifer Everett, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Environmental Fellows Program at DePauw University
• Criticism of Disney’s Pocahontas
• Jainism
• Feminist Perspectives on Power
• Aristotle

Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Photo is by Larry Liggett. Music used in this episode (in order of appearance):

1. 1. “Badlands” by Cory Gray
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 3.0
   2. “A Certain Lightness” by Blue Dot Sessions
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 4.0
   3. “Heather” by Blue Dot Sessions
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 4.0
   4. “Planting Flags” by Blue Dot Sessions
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 4.0
   5. “One Quiet Conversation” by Blue Dot Sessions
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 4.0
   6. “Big Because (Instrumental)” by Minden
      From the Free Music Archive
      CC BY-NC 3.0

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