The Disconnect Between Climate Goals And Funds For Factory Farms

It’s hard to overstate the importance of rivers like Peripa to residents of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. “For us, losing a river means losing our life, losing our identity, because there we find healing medicine, because we use the waters as a source of cleansing. For us, it’s something very sacred,” says Ricardo Calazacón, who has continued the centuries-old Indigenous Tsáchila tradition of…