On Worldviews and Climate Justice w/ Osprey Orielle Lake

In this episode, we sit with Osprey Orielle Lake and dig into the topics she explores in her book The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis as well as her work with the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). We discuss worldviews as a portal to different ways of knowing and being that resist the extractive and exploitative logics underpinning capitalism; origin stories and the ways in which what Osprey calls “dominant culture” alienates us from nature and one another; feminism and the intersections of feminism and climate justice; land back, the rights of nature, and the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future.

Osprey sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.

She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, and her new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis 

Some resources mentioned by Osprey that you should check out:

• Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions

• The Need for Real Zero Not Net Zero: Shifting from False Solutions to Real Solutions and a Just Transition