BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan Spring 2022

Since time immemorial, the relationships that First Nations have had with our environments have sustained us and profoundly informed our cultures and ways of living. The process of colonization has disrupted our land- based practices, displaced us from our traditional territories, impacted our relationship with the environment, and made us dependent on a social and economic system that relies on the exploitation, rather than stewardship, of natural resources. Climate change is a direct outcome of this worldview that relegates our living world to a set of resources to be exploited with little regard for the consequences. Our environment, and our relationships to it as First Nations, are again facing enormous transformations as the impacts of climate change
become increasingly evident. The climate emergency is not a future problem, but the reality of our current moment.