Ngara Institute Climate Series, 2020 Tyson Yunkporta
Channel: Ngara Institute
Date: 2020-05-09

Ngara Institute presents Indigenous author and academic Dr Tyson Yunkaporta to discuss the varied and complex impacts of climate/ecological crisis.


Our current ways of thinking are not supporting a strong and sustainable society: if ever there was a need for a less simplistic, more nuanced approach, it is now. 
 
Indigenous thinking knows the world is complex and that to simplify it is to destroy it.
 
This insightful, funny, and very human session exploring how Indigenous knowledges can help guide us toward a different future.
 
Dr Yunkaporta’s voice has resonated across the airwaves and indeed in print since the publication in September 2019 of his ground-breaking book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.
 
Importantly, he looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation and how this affects us and how we can do things differently. His book provides a template for living and questions how we learn and how we remember.


To savour a taste of the philosophical and practical flavour of his thinking, reflect on “we are all refugees, severed from the land” or “if you don’t move with the land, the land will move you”. Consider “culture is not what your hands touch, it’s what moves your hands”. And “your mind is more than your brain and your sight is more than your eyes provide.”


‘An extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming… Unheralded.’ - Melissa Lucashenko

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