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In the first half-hour of this week’s edi­tion of First Voic­es Radio, we fea­ture two speak­ers from a pan­el at the COP 24 Cli­mate Sum­mit, a two-week con­fer­ence that was held in Katow­ice, Poland in Decem­ber 2018. (COP 24 is the acronym for the 24th Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties to the Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change.) The excerpt of the pan­el dis­cus­sion fea­tures two speak­ers: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Srad­dhalu Ranade. They address the need for a com­plete change to the social and eco­nom­ic sys­tems that are dri­ving the cli­mate crisis.

Srad­dhalu Ranade is a sci­en­tist, edu­ca­tor and ded­i­cat­ed schol­ar on the teach­ings of the late Indi­an sage Sri Aurobindo. He has lived all his life at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicher­ry and stud­ied under the tute­lage of M.P. Pan­dit, one of the close dis­ci­ples of Sri Aurobindo and the Moth­er. Ranade leads retreats, deliv­ers talks and con­ducts work­shops on a range of themes, includ­ing Vedic phi­los­o­phy, ecol­o­gy and world­view, inte­gral edu­ca­tion, self-devel­op­ment, Indi­an cul­ture, sci­ence and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, spir­i­tu­al evo­lu­tion and yoga. Over the years he has addressed many thou­sands of stu­dents on these top­ics from numer­ous schools, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties all over India and has con­duct­ed numer­ous inten­sive teacher-train­ing work­shops in inte­gral and val­ue-based edu­ca­tion. Ranade holds a deep inter­est in the spir­i­tu­al evo­lu­tion of mankind as taught by Sri Aurobindo in the cur­rent frame­work of our glob­al com­mu­ni­ty as well as from a cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive. He is author of the wide­ly acclaimed book, Intro­duc­tion to Inte­gral Education.

The sec­ond half of the broad­cast fea­tures two sets of remarks, the first from the late Rus­sell Means (Lako­ta) at The 1980 Black Hills Alliance: The Sur­vival Gath­er­ing and the sec­ond from the late John Trudell (Isan­ti Dako­ta), What Hap­pened to the Tribes of Europe from DNA Descen­dant Now Ances­tor 2000.