Dialogue Earth

Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya lost against the German energy giant RWE, but the lawsuit paved the way for holding companies accountable for the climate crisis.

"One lawsuit will not stop climate change. But by asserting that the world’s largest polluters are neighbours to the communities bearing the brunt of their emissions, Lliuya’s case has changed the legal climate," writes researcher Noah Walker-Crawford.

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Behind a purple facade in central Manaus, a fast-growing Brazilian city of over two million people, lies a leading hub for Indigenous medicine in the city. Patients travel over 800km for the centres expertise in bahsese, a series of rituals for protection, the prevention of ill health, and healing.

💬 “We are faced with various models of knowledge. Science is one model, and Indigenous peoples have another. What we need is to learn to engage in dialogue across these differences,” says João Paulo Barreto, researcher and lecturer in social anthropology at the Federal University of Amazonas.

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