#111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this conversation with environmental ethicist Guillermo Zapata we discuss the role of indigenous philosophy in shaping our approach to environmental problems, the most pressing threats emerging from climate change, and how we can resist the encroachment of corporate and political interests that are contrary to rational and urgent action of climate change and the Sixth Mass Extinction. -//- Citations Indigenous philosophy and Rousseau/Enlightenment: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything French philosopher who conceived technology as an organism: Jacques Ellul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#On_technique Dutch microplastics study: https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-microplastics-blood.html All rainwater is poison: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62391069 The Green Scare 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare Sheldon Wolin concept “Inverted Totalitarianism” is developed in his book “Democracy Incorporated." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin#Fate_of_democracy  Guest Reading Recommendations: Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass Right Story, Wrong Story - Tyson Yunkaporta: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45449501-sand-talk How to Do Nothing - Jenny Odell https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42771901-how-to-do-nothing Indigenizing Philosophy through Land - Brian Burkhart: https://msupress.org/9781611863307/indigenizing-philosophy-through-the-land/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support