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For The Wild

In order to lim­it glob­al tem­per­a­ture from exceed­ing a 1.5C increase, we need to cut glob­al emis­sions by 45% in the next 10 years. How­ev­er, recent reports indi­cate that if our cur­rent glob­al pledges were enact­ed, wed only reduce our emis­sions by 1%. We are liv­ing through what some might define as an ongo­ing cli­mate emer­gency, and this will only con­tin­ue for future gen­er­a­tions. Instead of fix­at­ing on how to stop cli­mate change-relat­ed dis­as­ters or putting our trust in inef­fec­tive gov­ern­ment bod­ies or greedy pur­vey­ors of green tech­nol­o­gy to save us, this week, we think about how we can have com­mu­ni­ty resilience, inge­nu­ity, and well­be­ing amidst unpre­dictable cir­cum­stances with guest Lil Mila­gro Hen­riquez-Corne­jo of Myceli­um Youth Net­work. For Myceli­um Youth Net­work, the capac­i­ty for com­mu­ni­ty resilience is inex­tri­ca­ble from recon­nect­ing with ances­tral knowl­edge and reestab­lish­ing our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er and Earth. Lil Mila­gro Hen­riquez-Corne­jo is the founder and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Myceli­um Youth Net­work, an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to prepar­ing and empow­er­ing young peo­ple of col­or for cli­mate change. Lil Mila­gro is a vet­er­an of social jus­tice orga­niz­ing with over 18+ years of expe­ri­ence work­ing on a myr­i­ad of issues, includ­ing access to high­er edu­ca­tion for low-income peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties of col­or, food sov­er­eign­ty, envi­ron­men­tal racism, union democ­ra­cy, and labor orga­niz­ing, among oth­ers. In 2017, she found­ed Myceli­um Youth Network.