It’s Time to Clean Up the Mess

About this episode

What if the knowledge we need most for the future is something we’ve spent centuries forgetting? Meet Victor Steffensen, Tagalaka man, author, filmmaker, musician and co-founder of the Living Knowledge Network. For decades, Victor has worked with Indigenous communities in Australia and around the world to revive traditional ways of reading and caring for Country. His new book, The Knowledge, asks a much bigger question: what have we lost by separating ourselves from the natural world - and what might happen if we learned how to listen again? From why the climate crisis may actually be an identity crisis to how Western science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems can work together and the deceptively simple idea that everything we create should help nature flourish - this is a conversation about Indigenous knowledge as you might never have heard it before. Not as something that belongs to a select few, but as the wisdom that underpins us all. In this episode: • Why Victor believes we’re all Indigenous to the planet • Why he thinks the climate crisis is, at its heart, an identity crisis • What happens when a landscape loses its identity and how you bring it back • How ancient kno