“That’s Not the Entire Story:” Youth and Indigenous Voices Call for Intersectional Environmental and Multispecies Justice Approaches at Great Salt Lake

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Abstract

Great Salt Lake is facing potential ecological collapse, which will have a cascade of consequences across communities, states, and continents. Despite many calls for healing human and more-than-human communities, Utah policy has still not met the challenges of a rapidly declining lake. Communities closest to the lake and with heightened health and structural vulnerabilities—including communities of color, youth, Tribes, ecologies, and other marginalized communities—are those who will receive the strongest punishment for the state’s failure to address this urgent issue. Yet, as lake levels recede in response to the pressures of settler colonial systems and values, youth and Indigenous voices rise to proclaim their knowledges, critical stories, and approaches to water conservation that center justice for all peoples and ecologies. Braiding marginalized knowledges creates strong weavings that transform our cultures and social structures. With these knowledge weavings connecting diverse peoples in this region, we believe we can collectively heal battered landscapes and communities. In this podcast, a panel of four youth and Indigenous leaders discuss the potential of bringing a thriving world into being for many species, lands, and waters.

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