I’m speaking with Maia Wikler, who is an impressive force for climate advocacy and environmental justice. Maia is a PhD student in Political Ecology and journalist for outlets such as Teen Vogue and VICE.
On this episode we chat about:

The importance of access to nature on our health—and why we need to fight for it
How early health challenges led Maia to understand how the health of the environment affects us personally
The fallacy of individualism. We’re not separate from our environment or each other
Why it actually matters that we understand how ecosystems work
The intersections of food security and sovereignty in the North. “They’re just SO inextricable from oil and gas drilling impacts on the Arctic”
The Indigenous Elders who informed and shaped Maia’s experience of Alaska
How Fairy Creek, while local in scale, is global in what it represents: the extreme scarcity of old growth, intact, ancient rainforest in Canada
The value of contextualizing an expedition with the stories of the land—and how orienting that is for researchers
The shocking truth about the forestry industry’s carbon emissions
How violent “road building” is on both the land and the local Indigenous communities
How politics affects biodiversity and corporate abuse in BC forests
Campaigns of misinformation “greenwashing”

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Connect with Maia:
Website: maiawikler.com
Instagram: @maiareillyw
Twitter: @maiawikler
Maia’s essays are featured in the book, No Planet B, and she has a chapter titled When the Salmon Spoke: A Community-led, Storied Resistance and Resilience to Colonial Violence, in the forthcoming Book Business Storytelling and Postcolonialism
Support the Defence of Indigenous Land BIPOC fund – Fairy Creek
Maia’s Recommendations:
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Vogue Mexico’s cover feature on Quannah Chasinghorse + following her on Instagram