Intl. drug policy, environmental destruction & colonialism

Colonialism is not a finished chapter, it still shapes climate change, land loss, and whose knowledge gets taken seriously. Daniel Del el Belalcazar makes the case that understanding environmental destruction means examining the colonial systems behind it. Daniel traces how coloniality persists through knowledge hierarchies, religion, racism, and economic systems that reward extraction. From the Manhattan Project’s detonation on sacred Indigenous land to the suppression of peyote rituals, he explores how colonial power disrupted Indigenous relationships with territory, spirituality, and the natural world and why those relationships matter for the planet’s future. In this episode, you will hear about: Why colonialism extends beyond the control of land and people How religion was used to justify conquest and suppress Indigenous spiritual practices What the Wirikuta pilgrimage and peyote reveal about different relationships with nature How the language of “development” can obscure ecological destruction and inequality Why Indigenous knowledge belongs at the center of climate conversations This podcast was made with the technical support of OurVoices2.0. Our Voices 2.0 is an intercultural media project by: “ Eleganz Bildungsplattform e.V.” #ClimateJustice #Colonialism #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalJustice #Decolonization