attempt to outline some principles which will assist humanity to continue to live with biodiversity. In a similar vein, the Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples’ Earth Charter begins with the following statement in its preamble: “We, the Indigenous Peoples, walk to the future in the footprints of our ancestors” (in Posey and Dutfield 1996: 189).1 Wild politics is the view that diversity is central to the existence of life, to the sustenance of the planet, and to the health of human society. In that case, she said, we have a 40,000-year plan. This idea comes from a talk originally given in Australia by Lilla Watson in 1984 on “Aboriginal Women and Feminism.” Watson commented that to Aboriginal people in Australia, the future extends as far forward as the past. I have in mind a “wild politics,” a vision which I hope could be sustained for at least the next 40,000 years. Wild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years
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