Kritee Kanko: Social and Environmental Justice (Part 3 of 4)

In this powerful talk, Sensei and Climate Scientist Kritee Kanko begins by underscoring the importance of addressing trauma for activism. To hear each other we need to be in our comfort zones. ‘Our communities need to have the skills to face and compost trauma… for communities of color, the climate crisis is another layer of threat…lack of action impacts people of color and oppressed peoples the most.’  Climate anxiety without action is a gateway to eco-fascism, she warns. We need friendships and relationships that hold us accountable, and allow us to grieve. Even the privileged need to grieve so as not to react from a place of fight, flight, or freeze mind. The mind of dominance and the engine of oppression, but rather respond from a place of connection. For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: Social and Environmental Justice (2021)