2024-05-20
33 分钟What is your relationship with the planet we live on? As a human rights lawyer and environmental activist, Nonette Royo is trying to make us all live more symbiotically with nature. She works hard to listen to indigenous peoples around the world to help them control the land they live on and have a voice in policies and decisions that combat climate change. Nonette sits down with Chris to help us better understand how native traditions can inform all of our lives and why fighting for land rights may be one of the most important policies to mitigate climate change. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts.
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I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
I don't know about you, but when I think about protecting the environment and combating climate change, I'm mostly thinking about reducing my own emissions, being mindful of waste, trying to advocate for cleaner energy, things like that.
I dont often think about justice or land rights.
But as todays guest, the human rights lawyer Nanette Royo, passionately argues, some of the most important and effective policies are exactly those.
If we care about protecting the planet, we should be advocating for indigenous people to own and control the land that they have lived on for generations.
That is nonetheless belief.
And she has been working on this fight for years.
As youll hear, she and her community have literally put their lives on the line.
But she has also built a legal framework and an international organization that any of us can get involved with and all of us can learn from.
Here's a clip from her TED talk.
Over 20 years ago in my own hometown in southern Philippines, indigenous peoples activists all put their own lives on the line.
As fighters, they protect their forests against illegal loggers, companies, and miners who want to take their land.
My own fiance, a brave indigenous young man, was killed in that fight.
For years, I thought I was a coward.
Unlike my fiance, I chose the pen, not the gun.
I chose to set up a legal defense organization, stood with brave indigenous women and men.
As barefoot lawyers, I struggled between hope and fear.
When they ask, can we really trust the loos?