‘We can’t eat money or drink oil,’ Autumn Peltier tells UN | CBC News
“I’ve said it
once, and I’ll say it again: we can’t eat money or drink oil,” said the
activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern
Ontario.
once, and I’ll say it again: we can’t eat money or drink oil,” said the
activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern
Ontario.
Peltier
spoke at the Global Landscapes Forum, a platform on sustainable land use
founded by UN Environment and the World Bank that’s dedicated to
achieving development and climate goals.
She used the speech to
draw attention to the lack of clean water in numerous Indigenous
communities, which she says sparked her activism.