Jeremy Jiménez

Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland, Foundations and Social Advocacy

Farmer in Cameroon

Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels

It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.

May 23, 2022