After landmark climate win, lawyer hopes for a ‘new legal order’ to protect Indigenous rights

Lookin ahead, the Guam-based firm is developing legal challenges to deep sea mining in the Pacific based on Indigenous guardianship, which Aguon says seeks to defend the ocean as “kin rather than commodity”

Great work to see that there are people actively trying to deal with the climate crisis and global warming. I'm Indigenous Canadian and the message that this law firm is building on is one I learned from my parents and Elders in northern Ontario ... the idea and perspective that we don't live for very long in this world and that we should take care of it for future generations. To treat the land and water like a living breathing entity ... a sibling or a relative .. that we should take care of because we exist in the same world together.

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Lookin ahead, the Guam-based firm is developing legal challenges to deep sea mining in the Pacific based on Indigenous guardianship, which Aguon says seeks to defend the ocean as “kin rather than commodity”
Great work to see that there are people actively trying to deal with the climate crisis and global warming. I'm Indigenous Canadian and the message that this law firm is building on is one I learned from my parents and Elders in northern Ontario ... the idea and perspective that we don't live for very long in this world and that we should take care of it for future generations. To treat the land and water like a living breathing entity ... a sibling or a relative .. that we should take care of because we exist in the same world together.