[MCN] 2024 Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress

[Lance Olsen]

2024 Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress

		
Join students from across the country to discuss community adaptation and related environmental issues impacting Native peoples. The mission of the Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress (NYCALC) is to develop future conservation leaders with the skills, knowledge, and tools to address environmental change and conservation challenges to better serve their schools and home communities. In order to apply, students must be from Federally Recognized Tribes. 

Applications are due by March 15, 2024. 

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Standard of living versus life on Earth. 
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“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause.”
 
Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger

Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017

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“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. 

“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. 

"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”

Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt>

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“The American way of life is not negotiable.”

George H. W. Bush. 1992

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"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior that is at the annihilating edge."

R. D. Laing, MD. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. 
1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House

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