To tackle the climate crisis, we need to transform systems according to ancestral original instructions

In Aotearoa (contemporary Māori language name for New Zealand) we’ve tended to view ourselves as relatively protected from the health impacts of the climate crisis, but earlier this year that complacency came face to face with reality. Floods and storms hit Te Ika-a-Māui, the North Island, leading to loss of life and major social, economic, and environmental upheaval. These extreme weather events triggered a public health crisis with serious and profoundly inequitable effects, while also serving as a warning of worse to come.1Aotearoa’s susceptibility to climate related events is increased by changes in land use and in patterns of development that have occurred since European settlement. Settler colonialism, with its underpinning assumptions of superiority and resulting imposition of social, cultural, political, and economic systems, has transformed environments in ways that exacerbate the impacts of floods and storms.An example of this can be seen in the intersection of market driven livestock…
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