For The Wild The Edges in the Middle, V: Báyò Akómoláfé, Naomi Klein, and Yuria Celidwen
Jul 19, 2023
Yuria Celidwen, Indigenous scholar of Nuhua and Maya descent who teaches Indigenous epistemologies and contemplative practice. Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and climate justice thinker. They explore climate grief, Indigenous relationality with land, limits of data, grief as surrender and composting, critiques of enforced hope and savior narratives, colonial roots and reparations, and building solidarity and community in chaotic times.
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Grief Tied To Cultural And Biodiversity Loss
- Climate grief arises from layered losses: biodiversity, cultural practices, and languages eroding alongside ecological collapse.
- Yuria Celidwen links language loss to narrowing solution spaces, citing Maya and other indigenous languages from Chiapas as living knowledge reservoirs.
Local Losses Make Climate Grief Tangible
- Naomi Klein shares living examples from the British Columbia coast where drought and salmon decline make ecological loss tangible.
- She recounts her father's empty fishing trip and the recent discovery of 40 children near a former residential school as intertwined community griefs.
Feeling Enables Political Rebound
- Grief can be mistaken for dangerous political surrender, but actually opens capacity for feeling and rebound.
- Naomi reframes climate pedagogy: a course on "climate feelings" invites students to feel rage, hope, homesickness, not just data.