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Why learning from indigenous environmental practices feels complicated

I keep reading about how indigenous peoples lived sustainably and I want to learn from that but I also know I can't just appropriate their wisdom.

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The desire to learn ecological wisdom confronts the reality of cultural boundaries and the ethics of spiritual appropriation.

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