Perspectives (text, 2 min)

In this Experience, you’ll hear from an ocean physicist about how we need to think about our technological tools, scientific methods, and traditional knowledge as being “perspectives.” Whether it is the perspective of innate human sensory faculties, thousands of years of stewardship tradition, or new scientific technologies and frameworks.

In the enormously complex task of restoring the Bay and its many creatures (people included), each perspective is needed. This is because each perspective is a tool for a specific kind of job.

Each perspective brings unique value if its powers and limitations are understood and applied.

This related danger must be avoided: Each perspective will fall into error–destructive error with real world consequences–if it is considered by its users to be sufficient for making decisions or rendering judgements without the addition of other perspectives.

That is why the Peskotomuhkati call for a true co-management of their shared space of Peskotomuhkatikuk.

Empower the Peskotomuhkati to bring the Bay back to what it once was, a place of abundance for all who live here, in equal measure. The Peskotomuhkati want to provide the essential help and tools they have to give, tools which colonial governments do not have (the Bay would be healthy if they did).