The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 07:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. In having consultations that you have with Indigenous communities, how would you answer Alex's question?

Mm-hmm, such an excellent question. And in the context of North America, we have to be talking about the role of Indigenous peoples. And, you know, the first place I always start is remembering the rights that an Indigenous nation has here. And those rights include rights over the land and the resources and what goes on here. And so there's kind of two ways I've seen Indigenous communities lead in Canada. The first way is, I mentioned it a bit earlier, the renewable energy projects that are being, you know, led by indigenous communities.

Sometimes they're very small, maybe it's just a few solar panels on a long house. Sometimes they're huge, they're actually enough to generate electricity for, you know, tens of thousands of houses, including in six nations. Of course, there's really strong, both wind and solar projects that are great to drive by if folks are in the area. So that's the first one because Indigenous nations have control over that land, even if your province or the federal government are not

going as fast, that's definitely a place for leadership. The second one is actually on keeping carbon in the ground. There's a very interesting study that showed, and I forget the exact number, I apologize, by Indigenous climate action that showed how much carbon was being kept in the ground thanks to Indigenous people opposing new fossil fuel projects, right? New drilling, new oil sands mining. That's huge. And again, that's because of the rights that Indigenous peoples have, that they have that ability and that, you know, that feeling of responsibility. So those two areas of leadership would be where I would start. We are already at the end of this conversation. This has been really fascinating. Climate,

politics, and particularly international agreements are notoriously difficult to understand. Catherine and Eleanor, thank you so much for just making it really accessible and a little easier to understand. You're very welcome. Thanks a ton for talking about this. I've been speaking with Catherine Harrison, who is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and Eléonore Rougeau, who is a program manager at Environmental Defense Canada. [♪upbeat music playing.♪

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