The same goes for Black reparations, ending the hardening of the US border, defunding US imperialism, and stopping the continued exploitation of resources and labor in the Global South by countries up north. The question of restoring Indigenous land to Indigenous people is thoroughly political, which means the theft of it was-and is-not inevitable or beyond our current capacities to resolve. Ending settler colonialism and capitalism and returning Indigenous lands are all possible-and necessary. In this era of catastrophic climate change, why is it easier for some to imagine the end of fossil fuels than settler colonialism? To imagine green economies, carbon-free wind and solar energy, and electric, bullet-train utopias but not the return of Indigenous lands? Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world-a zombie apocalypse-than the end of capitalism? It’s not an either/or scenario. Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
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