This is the sixth article in my series about our changing Earth from interviews with Native Americans shared in We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, edited by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth (USA 2022). My presentation does not follow the order of the interviews.

#6: Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte (Potawatomi)
      (Chapter 6, pp. 73-95)

Kyle Powys Whyte, PhD is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. A faculty member of the University of Michigan, Illinois, he is a George Willis Pack Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). He is founding Faculty Director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment, Principal Investigator of the Environmental Justice & Humanities Hub, co-Principal Investigator of the Global Center for Climate Change and Transboundary Waters, Faculty Associate of Native American Studies, Principal Investigator of the Secretariat for the Pathways Alliance for Change and Transformation, STRIDE Committee member, affiliate Professor of Philosophy, and Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows.

His primary research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations. His articles have appeared in journals such as Climatic Change, Sustainability Science, Environmental Justice, Hypatia, Ecological Processes, Synthese, Human Ecology, Journal of Global Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Policy & Environment, and Ethics & the Environment. 

Dahr and Stan asked Kyle to address the following:

1. How humanity got to this climate crisis and what’s connected to it.
2. How the sense of panic in societies around the world might be differentiated from a sense of urgency.
3. How we might comport ourselves as members of the larger world society to meet the situation before us.

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