For a long time I’d seen climate change only as an environmental issue because environmentalists were always framing it in terms of birds, bears, and bees, but I’m a fisherman. I kill things for a living. I grew up shooting moose out of my kitchen window. I never thought climate change had anything to do with my life. But it does. From my vantage point, climate change is not an environmental issue at all — it’s an economic issue.
The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
Bren Smith
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Makes me think of indigenous people who’ve had to deal with colonial destruction of land they’d lived off of, and needed — to maintain their way of life and even survive.