Mother Earth, Indigenous peoples and neo-liberal climate change governance

Indigenous, local, traditional and other place-based peoples are most affected by the ecocidal ¹ climate crisis that the Earth now endures. Paradoxically they are also least responsible for it. This chapter explores dimensions of the global neo-liberal political economy that explain this genocidal and ecocidal climate injustice and examines the role of Indigenous peoples in identifying an alternative paradigm whereby humankind could live with nature instead of conflict with it.