Guest: Kris Li

Moderator: Xianwen Huang

Kris is a young social activist and junior researcher on International Relations coming from China. She's fascinated by the land of Latin America, experiencing her gap year now in Ecuador and Costa Rica. She's also the founder of ACTIVISM, where she shares her public welfare projects and thoughts over sociology questions.

Over the climate change influences on indigenous people and over the digital technologies nowadays beneficial for environmental issues, she shared her inspiring perspective from politics and ideology in this talk.

Highlights:

01:37 Kris' personal experiences and understanding of the local aboriginal cultures

04:44 Climate change influences and sustainable technologies: it's also a political issue

10:20 Political ecology and indigenous cultures in Latin America

12:42 Indigenous cultural heritages can be alternative inspirations for the world

14:18 Obstacles the indigenous groups are facing in Latin America

16:55 Climate change problems amplify the vulnerability of the economy and political rights of the indigenous people in Latin America

18:32 Indigenous people and their cultures are diverse

Credit: the background music is from fiftysounds.com.