Climate Action Fellowship Launches action plan
The Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship has released a Draft Summary Reconnection Vision and Action Plan (RVAP) for Engagement along with a short film about the plan.
The Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship has released a Draft Summary Reconnection Vision and Action Plan (RVAP) for Engagement along with a short film about the plan.
The 20-month Fellowship is comprised of 13 Yukon First Nations Youth Fellows from across the territory and aims to decolonize climate policy in the North by empowering youth to lead the charge.
Since January 2021, the Fellows who see themselves as the Children of Tomorrow, have been working on the RVAP.
The short film about the plan, available at https://yfnclimate.ca, was made by Fellow Jared Dulac, and shares the philosophy, work and reconnection journeys of the Fellows.
The launch of the RVAP-Draft Summary for Engagement marks an important milestone for the Fellowship and a major accomplishment for the Children of Tomorrow.
“Through sharing conversations, ceremony, art, storytelling, they have deeply explored important questions about disconnection, reconnection, barriers to reconnection, climate action and the Yukon First Nation Final Agreements,” said a statement Tuesday describing the initiative.
As the RVAP describes it, “... the heart of climate change lies within our disconnection from Spirit, Self, Each Other and Earth.
“This disconnection is at the foundation of the systems we live, learn and work within. This is the root cause of climate change and what we must focus on changing and taking action upon.”
The RVAP presents the philosophy of “Reconnection is Climate Action” and the theory of change – where the Children of Tomorrow are developing a climate action plan rooted firmly and solely in the traditional values and teachings held sacred by Yukon First Nations.
“The goal of this action plan is to encourage all people in the Yukon, Canada, and beyond towards their own reconnection journey.
The draft RVAP is a vision of what could be if we were all able to live whole and connected lives.”
The Fellows are engaging with Yukon First Nation communities, governments, knowledge holders and grassroots organizations.
The next steps include the launch of a working group of community leaders and visionaries to help the Fellows refine the RVAP and develop actions for the final plan.
The final plan will be released in early 2023 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Together Today for our Children Tomorrow and the two-year anniversary of the Yukon First Nation Climate Action Gathering held in 2020.
The Draft Summary for Engagement along with an engagement questionnaire can be found on the Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship website at https://www.yfnclimate.ca/yfnrvap.
“I don’t carry an elected title or an appointed title, but I am privileged to walk with these leaders into their future,” said elder Shirley Adamson, of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.
“That is something that I’m very, very grateful for.”
“ I think it’s in spaces like these that you get to practise that mindfulness and practise strengthening the connection to the land,” added Geehaadastee/Shauna Yeomans-Lindstrom of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, who is also a First Nations Climate Action Fellow.
“It’s been incredibly inspiring to be around the Fellows, and they truly give a sense of hope,” said Jocelyn Joe Strack/Daqualama, a member of the Fellowship Steering Committee.
“It’s very, very rewarding work.”
Regional Chief Kluane Adamek, of the Assembly of First Nations (Yukon region), called it “an honour to support these Fellows – the Children of Tomorrow – as they advance their reconnection journeys thus far.
“The work of climate reconnection can be very challenging, and these young First Nation climate leaders are driving solutions based on their values, shaping the holistic vision and approach to climate action that is needed in the Yukon, and beyond.
“I continue to admire and learn from the Children of Tomorrow as they strengthen their connections to themselves, their communities, and to the land, all while building towards the future that the ancestors imagined for us, and for generations to come,” Adamek added.
“CYFN (the Council of Yukon First Nations) is proud to support the work of the Fellowship that places our youth at the forefront of climate action leadership,” said Grand Chief Peter Johnston.
“Empowering our Youth in leading the way to identify the path forward around climate action on behalf of Yukon First Nations people is essential.”
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motive unclear on Aug 31, 2022 at 5:55 am
“In the future it will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We will start with the old, because as soon as he is over 60-65 years of age, man lives longer than he produces and costs society dearly. Then the weak and then the useless who do nothing for society because there will be more and more of them, and especially finally the stupid ones.”
“Euthanasia targeting these groups; euthanasia will have to be an essential instrument of our future societies, in all cases. Of course, we cannot execute people or set up camps. We will get rid of it by making them believe it is for their own good. Too large a population, and for the most part unnecessary, is something economically too expensive.”
“Socially, it is also much better for the human machine to come to a screeching halt rather than gradually deteriorating. We won’t be able to give intelligence tests to millions and millions of people, you can imagine!”
“We will find something or cause it, a pandemic that targets certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus that will affect the old or the big, it doesn’t matter, the weak will succumb to it, the fearful and the stupid will believe it and ask to be treated.”
“We will have taken care to have planned the treatment, a treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots will thus be done by themselves: they will go to the slaughterhouse on their own. “
“The future of life” – Jacques Attali, 1981, interview with Michel Salomon.
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Kappo on Aug 28, 2022 at 10:32 pm
@North60
Good job copying and pasting a bunch of math that you don't understand lol. I don't either as I'm not a climatologist or even a math major and I'm willing to bet you aren't either. Hence you and I might as well debate quantum physics if we are going to debate the nuts and bolts of climate science.
Without saying there is a global conspiracy to pay off scientists around the world, and all said scientists have thrown out their morals and ethics, can you please explain why the following organizations completely disagree with your position?
MIT, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Stanford, McGill, Princeton, the University of Tokyo, the Max Planck Institute, NASA and countless others. These organizations are telling us this is NOT natural and that is a deadly serious problem.
Oh and you might be right that we could have thrived during the Pliocene era, but only if we slowly came into it. The flora and fauna of that time period were adapted to the environment they were in. You can't just take all of the life that exists today and thrust it into a changed environment over night.......this is the problem we are facing. Animals and plants aren't being given the thousands or millions in some cases of years that they need to evolve.
Put another way, if you are in a car coming up to a stop sign, you can slowly and gently come to a stop or you can slam on the brakes doing 150km/hr. Both methods will get you to the same place but one will be tremendously more violent. Unfortunately we are on the latter path.
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North_of_60 on Aug 27, 2022 at 6:25 pm
@Kappo is misinformed
The CO2 emitted by human activities amounts to only 4.6 ppm per year, about 1% of atmospheric CO2. It has absolutely no effect on warming the earth.
If you can't do the math, here's a clue:
One way of calculating an estimate of our CO2 contribution to the earth's increased greening is to calculate the atmospheric ppm from the 36 gigatons we emit per year. According to Conversion Tables taken from the Glossary: Carbon Dioxide and Climate, 1990. ORNL/CDIAC-39, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the mass of the atmosphere is 5.137 × 10^18 kg, and the mass of CO2 in the atmosphere is:
M x f x (44/28.9), where M is the total atmospheric mass, 5.137 x 10^18 kg, f is the molar or volume CO2 fraction, 0.0004, and 44/28.9 adjusts for the molecular weight of CO2 compared with average of other air molecules.
5.137 x 10^18 x 0.0004 x 44 / 28.9 = 3.128 x 10^15 kg
The annual human caused emissions are 3.6 x 10^13 kg
Thus the current annual human contribution is 415 x 3.6 x 10^13 / 3.128 x 10^15 = 4.6ppm or about 1.1% of the 415ppm in the atmosphere.
We may not be adding much, but every ppm of CO2 helps to green the planet.
Carbon Dioxide combined with photosynthesis is responsible for life on earth as we know it. It's highly unlikely that more CO2 is going to make the planet significantly warmer. It didn't in the past when there was more than ten times the present minimum average concentration of 400ppm [0.04%] in the atmosphere. Even if it did make the planet as warm as it has been in the past, what's the harm in that? Earth during the Pliocene, before the gap between North and South America closed, was a warm and lush green environment where only Antarctica and Greenland had ice caps and the Arctic ocean was ice free except for ephemeral sea ice in the dead of winter. We could have thrived during the Pliocene.
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Groucho d'North on Aug 27, 2022 at 3:45 pm
@TheHammer
"Hey mom, Can you please give us a ride to the climate change protest?"
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TheHammer on Aug 27, 2022 at 11:10 am
'De-colonization of climate' means the alternate view of nature that contrasts the de-sacralized Western scientific perspective. In other words the Western perspective of nature has brought on the climate change, it's a long history that moves from the religious perspective of Christianity that nature is ruled by the devil, to the scientific rationalist view of matter as a clockwork orange.
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Douglas Martens on Aug 27, 2022 at 6:49 am
With the Alaska highway closed again, (for the third time this year), perhaps we are all going to discover exciting new ways of dealing with the climate change in our apartments and homes as the power goes out this winter and fuel supplies disappear totally or become prohibitively expensive for most.
Now, what would that do to "empowering our youth to move forward in the fight against the climate" ?
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Kappo on Aug 27, 2022 at 12:34 am
@Charlie's Aunt
Saying that because change happened in the past (it did....and when it happened there were typically mass extinctions of life that followed - "The Great Dying" or Permian Extinction Event killed off 90% of marine life for example) natural reasons, humans cannot cause what is happening today. That is like saying, "humans can't start forest fires since forest fires have been happening on earth for as long as there have been forests".
For the mass extinction events of the past, we have identified probable causes, often super volcano eruptions or asteroid strikes. The extreme events and coming wave of extinctions we are witnessing today can't be explained unless you factor in humans and the industrial revolution. Early on in earth's history there was a lot more carbon in our biosphere. Over hundreds of millions of years, much of that carbon was slowly sequestered deep underground and permanently removed from the biosphere/carbon cycle. Now, in just a few hundred years we are pumping hundreds of billions of tons of it back into the biosphere/atmosphere. So to think that we can alter our atmosphere/oceans without any affect on our climate is ridiculous. I hope some of that makes sense to you?
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Nathan Living on Aug 26, 2022 at 7:08 pm
I think the City of Whitehorse should be involved in this initiative,
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Joseph campbell on Aug 26, 2022 at 6:27 pm
"aims to decolonize climate policy in the North by empowering youth to lead the charge.": Well, there goes old age wisdom. Where will all the youth's knowledge and wisdom come from - their favorite drinking holes and pot dens?
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Juniper Jackson on Aug 26, 2022 at 6:12 pm
The First Nations youth are taking total responsibility for climate change? As the RVAP describes it,
“... the heart of climate change lies within our disconnection from Spirit, Self, Each Other and Earth.
“This disconnection is at the foundation of the systems we live, learn and work within. This is the root cause of climate change and what we must focus on changing and taking action upon.”
Who funded this?
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Anie on Aug 26, 2022 at 4:07 pm
I can't think I'd the last time I read an article with so much fluff and so little substance, it seems that few of us have the courage to say "what the heck does that even mean?" Tp
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MITCH on Aug 26, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Hahahahahaha, I doxxed myself. Feel free to write for a stimulating debate.
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Charlie's Aunt on Aug 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm
@ Kappo, No-one is disputing the fact that climate is changing, what we are disputing is the cause. Yes we believe climatologists' research on ice age, also fact that Arctic was once not frozen and was home to the animals whose fossils are being dug up. That knowledge also comes from historians and archeologists. It is not climatologists who are scare mongering at present, it's nut jobs doing that. Do these nutters have an explanation for Magnetic North Pole shifting dramatically recently? Are these Children of Tomorrow going to shift it back?
Anyone who grew up in UK or Europe will remember the thick sooty fog we use to endure until 60s. Ride a bike for 1 mile in November and collar of a white shirt was black with soot particles. UK still has fog because of humidity but the soot disappeared from it when burning coal was banned. I don't recall climate change being given as reason for coal ban, it was because the air pollution caused health issues. Except for some places still burning coal, the global air is much cleaner now. What we need to do is encourage coal burning nations to stop doing that and everyone needs to work on eliminating much of the disposable garbage. Apart from plastic, that garbage will eventually include solar panels, wind turbine blades and other climate fix it ideas.
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Kapow! on Aug 26, 2022 at 2:07 pm
@ Kappo on Aug 25, 2022 at 10:26 pm:
Not a very intelligent argument there Kappo. Actually, it’s not even an argument. You are conveying your perspective on an issue that you feel is settled. It is not. The consensus argument by so-called climatologists is a coerced narrative of alarmism to achieve a political objective - Very close to the definition of terrorism.
We live in a scripted society:
SPEAKING OUT
“A system is in place that makes it incredibly difficult, almost impossible, for scientists to take a public stance against AGW — their funding and opportunities are shutoff, their credibility and character smeared, and their safety sometimes compromised.”
So, no, I do not listen to the “same” climatologists who say that things are getting worse or, they are more dangerous. I follow the science as methodology, not the science as the politics of, le wokisme!
For example, anthropological, geological, meteorological, and other sciences confirm tropical fauna in Greenland, inland seas, in the prairies, ice free corridor routes from Asia through North America, indigenous settlements 100 feet under the current Pacific Ocean etc.
Then there is the stupid focus on the earth heating up which is better suited to adaptation than is cold weather. However, there is an irony in this:
“Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings, published in The Lancet, also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells.”
This is a very nuanced problem with intersections of data points that have been politically infused to provide the equivocation necessary to advance a hidden agenda - It is an example of the fascistic creep as prelude to more authoritarian ideals.
One of my favourite stops on the way to Carmacks is the aggregate rock formations which provide evidence of an inland Yukon sea - Before the ice bridge. Then there was the mini ice age 800 years ago or so etc.
Open your eyes. Don’t accept the illusion of your handlers. There is no consensus, there has been no imminent threat for decades and decades of alarmism - First there was going to an ice age (1970s) then there was going to be a world on fire etc, and then they said it will be mixed.
If you’re going to challenge an idea you need to bring some evidence, not your personalized conjecture of make you feel good beliefs.
Hopefully kappo - I have provided you with something to chew on.
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Yukoner by choice on Aug 26, 2022 at 11:22 am
Honest questions:
"aims to decolonize climate policy in the North by empowering youth to lead the charge." what does that even mean? why do we have to bring race to "climate change"?
And, seeing that motorboats are used, where does the decolonization start and end? How far back do you want to go with the decolonization? Pre-cars, pre-flour, pre-fiddles? Or is the plan to keep everything comfortable and useful colonization has brought while at the same time damning it? I am really, truly interested in answers if anyone can provide them.
I have watched the video in the link and have respect for the elders and what hey said, which can be applied to any youth though. We are on this planet at the same time together, why do we still divide?
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Groucho d'North on Aug 26, 2022 at 10:58 am
Are extra points being awarded for including certain key words in these statements? WTF does this mean? "...aims to decolonize climate policy in the North by empowering youth to lead the charge." A plain English explanation of what you want to do and how you plan to do it would probably generate more support for your cause, or are you trying to be vague to prevent criticism for your plans?
So far all I see is a loosly-cobbled together low level cultural program to justify an application for some of the money Trudeau is gifting to the country's FNs ahead of the next election.
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MITCH on Aug 26, 2022 at 9:02 am
universalindividual@gmail.com@ Statues and limitations - they forget, and to be clear, they were never supposed to forget, PENDULUMS SWINGS BOTH WAYS. Ironically I argue against this nonsense because I would prefer the world not devolve to pre civil rights as a response.
The woke are endangering the very people they are trying to advocate for by estranging their community through their hostilities against everyone who isn't them in the media, in politics and in public. We resent YOU for THIS. But I've been remembering lately, these little milk stains on mommies' shirt don't know that I have a lifetime of advocacy under my belt before they were born.
Somebody asked me this week why I am so passionate about calling out the hypocrisy instead of putting that towards equality. I told them, I used to put my passions there, until I was told I was too racist to participate, because I am white. That will fail. Everyone can tell that will fail. Everyone needs a seat a at the table of equality, to lay out their past faults together, or you may as well use that table as an alter to self sacrifice in vain because society simply rejects anything less than that. All progress is organic, all failed ambition is coerced. I took cultural theory in University, I know the games these seditionists are playing. I invite them to leave our society out of dignity for themselves and the communities they unwillingly drag into their vocal battles to attack society at large.
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North_of_60 on Aug 26, 2022 at 12:48 am
Climate alarmists blame global warming for most of what is wrong in the world today because it is a simple, black-and-white explanation that transfers guilt and accountability from themselves to big and bad corporations. The media endlessly repeat global warming myths, blaming faceless factories and oil companies for every-day hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires because people who read or watch the news want to be assured that bad people are to blame for these things, not uncontrollable nature or their own lifestyles.
Scientists who start with the assumption that global temperatures in the modern era are unusually high are torturing databases until they find hints of statistically significant associations to something, however trivial, that might be bad. They get grants and win tenure by making such discoveries, but what if that assumption is wrong? “Self-justification” precludes them from even considering the possibility.
Knowing that global warming alarmism relies on irrational triggers explains why no number of books or scientific breakthroughs will end the global warming scam. So long as people need someone or something to blame for whatever is wrong in their lives, they will support politicians and activists willing to blame global warming. It’s the perfect scapegoat. The way to end this scam, then, is to treat global warming alarmism as the mental illness it is and use the tools of psychological counseling and therapy to cure them.
https://wipatriotstoolbox.com/2022/08/how-our-instinct-to-blame-allows-the-global-warming-scam-to-continue/
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Kappo on Aug 25, 2022 at 10:26 pm
@Kill that Statue
"The climate has been cycling for eons".
And how exactly do you know that?? Ohhhh right, it's from the work of Climatologists. The same ones who are telling us currently that what is happening is not natural and very dangerous. Odd how you believe them when they tell you what happened in the past but discard everything they say about the present and future.
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Joe on Aug 25, 2022 at 10:01 pm
Decolonization?? What kind of language is that? I was born here, nuf said.
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Joseph campbell on Aug 25, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Another "climate change" grand scam! Wonder where it fits into evolution. And wonder what this is going to cost us hard working taxpayers.
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Kill that statue! on Aug 25, 2022 at 4:35 pm
I’m with you Mitch. All this crap is nauseating. The climate has been cycling for eons. However, we keep getting the same message from the Chicken Little Liberal Party of Canada - Our beds are burning, racism is everywhere, the sky is falling… Help, help, help… We’re surrounded by white privileged individuals with misogynistic intent - Kill the statues (of old white people)!
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Mitch on Aug 25, 2022 at 1:57 pm
What a waste with a carbon footprint. We ready know division is disempowering, we are living it. You aren't listening, you're just talking.