Earth Day 365 lecture: Boston Terror – The Origins of Ecological Genocide in Your Backyard (and how you can stop it)
On Tuesday, April 25th, BU Sustainability collaborated with the Office of the Senior Diversity Officer, the Institute for Global Sustainability, and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground to celebrate Earth Day 365: a new series of events across Boston University that highlight how the importance of protecting our planet should be focused not only on Earth Day but every day of the year.
In this lecture, titled Boston Terror – The Origins of Ecological Genocide In Your Backyard (and how you can stop it), anthropologist David Shane Lowry, Ph.D., shed light on BU’s proximities to and relationships with the creation of policies, educational models, and corporate cultures that displace Indigenous peoples in the United States. The conversation focused on the tension at the center of American life that needs to be resolved: widescale suppression of Indigenous presence in everyday American institutions vs. a rapidly increasing need for the United States and the world to have access to Indigenous knowledge and political authority.