1.9 Being Ancestors - season finale with Betty Carpick plus Ben & Sam

Full transcript in blog post on this site. Highlights: 

- all of your relatives and ancestors, you’re an embodiment of them. And when you recognize that within yourself you also see how you are an ancestor.

- I think we often forget that what we are doing today is our shared legacy. It doesn’t have to be extraordinary, it can be ordinary, as long as it is authentic

-Take pride in being able to go forth with a shared legacy of  care and compassion that’s really about people and the planet.

- I want to remind young people that they can be empowered and emboldened by the things they do in their lives. When we share intergenerationally we’re giving the young people the artillery to move ahead in a stronger way. It’s our responsibility. I really believe in the intergenerational way of learning and sharing. It’s what I grew up with.

- Sometimes I see people who are in great heights of power as not wanting to hear what I have to say, but we have to remember that they’re humans. Authentic voices, truth telling voices - they get heard. You might not think they get heard, and they might not be heard in the way you think they should be heard but they get heard.

- If you can’t do what you’ve done for centuries, and all of the sudden you have nothing to do, people are desperate, depressed, sad and voiceless. Recovering from that is not easy.  Indigenous communities around the world have had that experience of extractive industry moving in and rearranging things for their own benefit. I mean if you have someone who has been a trapper and a fisherman all their lives, you can’t make them happier by giving them a maintenance job in a mill.

-I think to humanize it and not to make it seem that the climate crisis can be solved by someone else and we’re not all contributing. I contribute. You contribute. There’s no way any of us are martyrs about caring for the planet.

-I think we forget that we are nature and that every time we take a breath, we’re breathing nature. We’re not a separate entity. There is a pressure to believe that we are but we’re not. We need to be humble about who we are and our role here. If we look at time in the glacial way, wow - what an honour to have this time. We can’t forget that our greatest entitlement as human beings is that we get to live on a planet and enjoy this amazing world of nature and all the spectacles of nature. Isn’t it amazing, it’s all just amazing.

-Sam: I want to see Climate Change change as in I want it gone. That's not too optimistic: we know how to do it and it'll actually be cheaper in the long run. That begs the question: why haven't we done it yet?

-Ben: three main changes I'd really like to see: climate change fixed; our systems trusting us more; and less throwing things out just because they're not perfect

-Sam: don't ever say that food is just fuel

-Ben: local business are an important part of our culture so that when you go out for a treat you're tasting originality.