This week: An Indigenous activist’s fight for the Amazon and why the space race isn’t a good comparison for the environmental crisis
In this weekly edition of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we head into the Ecuadorian Amazon, where Indigenous leader and environmental activist Nemonte Nenquimo has spent the last decade fighting to protect her ancestral territory, the forest ecosystem and her way of life, from encroaching oil companies.
We also hear from Andrew Brookes, a geographer at King’s College London and a regular contributor to Geographical on why the increasingly common comparisons between the space race and the global environmental crisis are misleading and counter-productive.
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