Series Trailer: A Radical Act of Hope

Welcome to A Radical Act of Hope. In this series, Inuk climate advocate Siila Watt-Cloutier brings us into her world. A world where melting ice isn’t just a symptom of climate change—it’s a disruption of memory, identity, and rhythms of life in the North. She takes us from her home in the Arctic to the frontlines of international climate justice, alongside those who have been speaking up—and holding steady—for decades. 

 

Siila Watt-Cloutier is one of the most important climate justice voices of our time. Her work with the Inuit Circumpolar Council helped get the Stockholm Convention signed, ratified and enforced in record time. It's one of the most successful UN treaties that has ever been made to protect the environment by banning the “dirty dozen”––the persistent organic pollutants that contaminate food and human bodies. She then went on to pioneer linking climate change and human rights in a way that has completely revamped how the world thinks about climate change. 

 

Don’t miss this important conversation with Siila and the Indigenous women leaders who have inspired her journey. This isn’t just a climate story—it’s a story about the connections between people and place, and all that sustains us.

 

A Radical Act of Hope was produced in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions with support from The Gordon Foundation and the University of Victoria. 

 

We acknowledge with respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples on whose traditional territory this podcast was produced and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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Episode Transcript

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If we allow the Arctic to melt, we lose more than the planet that has nurtured us for allof human history.
We lose the wisdom required for us to sustain it.
Introducing A Radical Act of Hope The podcast where Inuk climate justice advocate SiilaWatt-Cloutier invites us into her world.
Siila Watt-Cloutier is an important figure, not just in Canada, but the world.

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She is one of the world's most decorated advocates for the environment, culture and humanrights.
Everything is connected through our common atmosphere, not to mention our common spiritand humanity.
What affects one affects us all.
Siila Watt-Cloutier and the Indigenous Coalition from the Circumpolar Regions were veryinfluential in getting the Stockholm Convention signed, ratified and enforced in record

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time.
It's one of the most successful UN treaties that has ever been made to protect theenvironment, to ban
the dirty dozen, the persistent organic pollutants that contaminate food and contaminatehuman bodies.
She then went on to pioneer linking climate change and human rights in a way that hascompletely revamped how we think about climate change.

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The Arctic, after all, is the cooling system, the air conditioner, if you will, for theentire planet.
As its ice and snow disappear, the globe's temperature rise faster and erratic weatherbecomes more frequent.
The future of Inuit is the future of the rest of the world.
Our home is the barometer for what is happening to our entire planet.

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In these challenging times, the world needs Indigenous wisdom, conscious leadership, and ARadical Act of Hope
We're at a critical moment in human history.
So this podcast is an opportunity for us to share that message and to honour somebody whohas made a tremendous difference.
She has literally changed the world, the way we think about it and the way we act in it.

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And who wouldn't want to follow someone who is guiding that kind of path for us?
Don't miss this important conversation with Siila and Indigenous women leaders who haveinspired her journey to becoming one of the most influential climate justice voices of our
time.
Subscribe to A Radical Act of Hope wherever you get your podcasts.
Produced in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions with thesupport from The Gordon Foundation and the University of Victoria.