[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
hakuna matata got pork potassium iodine
Ida Karthik economy heat or taking out
refinery opacity una mochila Kapoor the
moananui a kiwa did not go to cut poor
Joey everyone my name is cutter dentists
and I come from the from altair Dora a
big little island in the South Pacific
and I have come here to talk about
coexistence man in the environment now
coming up with the the title for this
talk I didn’t really know what to call
it what to say I thought maybe I should
put in coexistence a journey the man in
the environment but I just lifted
coexistence men in the environment and
the key reason for that is because
within a Maori worldview when you were
born you’re born to coexist with your
environment so when a child is born the
placenta of that child is buried into
the finger and the Maori word for
placenta is also fear so from that
moment and time when you’re thinner is
put into the FINRA you are cemented your
relationship with the earth with Papa to
occur and you coexist with her and
around her but along the way in this
journey of coexistence you kind of lose
your way and you get caught up and all
sorts of other things you get caught up
in and no buying your house and buying a
car and doing all sorts of crazy things
and you forget the impact of your
relationship with your mother with your
mother earth and for me it was a journey
of Revelation and I always wanted to be
close to my own fire
and so I went to university and I did a
history degree I did a geography degree
and I even did a masters of resource
management and planning crazy I know and
then I spent four years doing policy
around the environment and what I found
out through that however long that was
eight years nine years was that the
thing called resource management or this
thing called managing our environment
managing our ecosystem managing our
rivers managing our land is kind of a
lie it’s not actually about managing
your environment until your or your land
or your water it’s actually about
managing your relationship with those
things because it’s us who puts the
negative impact on those places on those
things so it’s about managing us and
coexisting with our environment so
that’s why I framed my talk today around
the word coexistence it’s also a quite a
nice utopian idea that we might be able
to coexist with our environment and and
move away from this extractive
destructive relationship that we
currently have where we think that we
own things all of a sudden I’ve got a
piece of paper now I own this land and I
can do whatever I want with this land to
the detriment of everything else around
it and not recognizing the symbiotic
relationship that that piece of land or
that stream with that River has with
everything else we see things in
isolation and so we’ve been caught up in
this world where we have a piece of
paper and we have a right to do
something we have a piece of paper we
have Dominion and control over something
I want to change that paradigm I want to
change their thinking I want us to think
differently about our environment and
how we interact with it so I’ve proposed
well I’ve looked debt people who have
been able to shift
thinking from resource management
environmental management or ownership
rights Dominion to something else
something different and I’ve come up
with three points well there’s probably
way more than three let’s be honest and
there’s probably at least a hundred but
I’ve come up with three points and the
first point is that in order to lead
change to change the paradigm to change
thinking you’ve got to be disruptive and
you’ve got to be the protagonist you’ve
got to be the positive deviant that
predicts new ideas that sees the
impossible as possible that in the and
the echoes of laughter you still move
forward with your idea with your crazy
thought and so I’m gonna talk about
peridot era which is one of my home
lands back in New Zealand and for those
of you who don’t know video weather is a
block of land that’s pretty big I don’t
know how big specifically but it’s
pretty big and it’s the home of my
people Knights you who the tribal people
of to Wayne and this land used to be a
national park which was owned by the
government by the crown I use government
crown they’re both the same but today in
2017 this land owns itself it’s its own
legal personality its own legal identity
crazy right
how can a piece of land with some
strains in a river and a and a lake or
to own itself and it’s these crazy ideas
that move us forward and project and new
possibilities and new futures new
opportunities they read a letter the
second point is the journey from Peru
the way they’re being controlled and
governed
by the government to owning itself
required patience resilience time
perseverance a whole lot of things
because the journey started in 1840 when
New Zealand was colonized from that
point in time our relationship with our
environment has changed
we had been dispossessed of our
relationship with our mother without
earth with our River with our streams
and so from that period we’ve been
trying to get back that relationship get
back that intimate relationship that we
had
without earth with our mother with our
failure and in 2014
leaders from within my tribe of my two
who were able to do that they were able
to present this idea that maybe because
originally how people actually sought to
own the land they didn’t want to own it
and that in terms of a Western sense of
ownership with exclusion of all others
they just saw that that the only legal
mechanism that was available to them at
their time was to actually own it and
then from that they will be able to
reforge the relationship that they lost
but the crown the government been the
government they don’t like giving over
power control Dominion all these sorts
of things said no there is no way that
we’re going to give you ownership so
they went back and they talked and they
had conversations and research and
explored and other options for how this
might work how we might be able to
reforge our relationship with our lands
and they decided let’s remove the word
ownership from the conversation let’s
say that no one owns this piece of land
and then the conversation changed and
then we created they would a Witter
a forest on our hilly our provider our
mother Alma died and that sustains us in
his own it is his own legal person the
third point is that in order to create a
paradigm shift a change in thinking
we’ve got to go from challenging the
status quo being disruptive to working
hard being resilient and moving through
the motions of time and then we’ve got
to get to a point where we create
something which is fair and just because
if it’s not fair and just then how do
people associate with it how are people
going to buy into it so the creation of
their route or whether this thing that
used to be a national park into a legal
person was purely but the legalization
or utilizing a legal tool to make a
tradition that we’ve been that we’ve
known for centuries to be true legal
we’ve always known that this land is our
mother well we all we needed to do was
just get a piece of paper to say that
and we know that to be innately true and
it’s something which drives our
principles our values as human beings it
doesn’t matter if you’re Marty Pacific
Islander from anywhere you understand
that relationship in that connection so
you can you can get it so it was crucial
that what was ever what was created was
understood by all now 2017 three years
on and we’re still on this journey
because we’ve been dispossessed as
associated with coexistence for such a
long time that we’ve got to kind of
recreate it and sort of move through the
notions of understanding what it looks
like and what it feels like and what it
is to co-exist and this
and some respects as a physical
representation of them this is a living
building and in 2000 and I think it was
in 2012 this building was constructed
and it’s the only living building in New
Zealand currently and it’s right in the
heart
well depends where you’re from with
Intuit or Witter but it’s in the heart
of Peru the Widder and this building is
you know self-sufficient it’s solar
heating it deals with its own storm
water rain water everything but the key
element of it is that it’s a living
building it sucks in life and gives our
life so in sort of in some respects
that’s what coexistence is about is
bringing taking an absorbing life and
then giving it out begin as well it’s
not some stagnant building that just
stands there and does nothing and looks
pretty it gives life
it gives being it has a modey modey
within Marty it means a life force then
its simplest form in its most complex
form
everything has a Modi and Modi is
everything and so this is what that is
so I guess I’ll just go back to my last
three points is that it’s about changing
the paradigm requires disruption second
point good work hard your lead
perseverant 177 years it took for this
to happen and you’ve got to create
something which is fear and just so I
know data and I’m here : about your
quarter I put in now cope in our code
though you’re a might I thought about
what Missy
[Applause]
[Applause]
[Music]
hakuna matata got pork potassium iodine
Ida Karthik economy heat or taking out
refinery opacity una mochila Kapoor the
moananui a kiwa did not go to cut poor
Joey everyone my name is cutter dentists
and I come from the from altair Dora a
big little island in the South Pacific
and I have come here to talk about
coexistence man in the environment now
coming up with the the title for this
talk I didn’t really know what to call
it what to say I thought maybe I should
put in coexistence a journey the man in
the environment but I just lifted
coexistence men in the environment and
the key reason for that is because
within a Maori worldview when you were
born you’re born to coexist with your
environment so when a child is born the
placenta of that child is buried into
the finger and the Maori word for
placenta is also fear so from that
moment and time when you’re thinner is
put into the FINRA you are cemented your
relationship with the earth with Papa to
occur and you coexist with her and
around her but along the way in this
journey of coexistence you kind of lose
your way and you get caught up and all
sorts of other things you get caught up
in and no buying your house and buying a
car and doing all sorts of crazy things
and you forget the impact of your
relationship with your mother with your
mother earth and for me it was a journey
of Revelation and I always wanted to be
close to my own fire
and so I went to university and I did a
history degree I did a geography degree
and I even did a masters of resource
management and planning crazy I know and
then I spent four years doing policy
around the environment and what I found
out through that however long that was
eight years nine years was that the
thing called resource management or this
thing called managing our environment
managing our ecosystem managing our
rivers managing our land is kind of a
lie it’s not actually about managing
your environment until your or your land
or your water it’s actually about
managing your relationship with those
things because it’s us who puts the
negative impact on those places on those
things so it’s about managing us and
coexisting with our environment so
that’s why I framed my talk today around
the word coexistence it’s also a quite a
nice utopian idea that we might be able
to coexist with our environment and and
move away from this extractive
destructive relationship that we
currently have where we think that we
own things all of a sudden I’ve got a
piece of paper now I own this land and I
can do whatever I want with this land to
the detriment of everything else around
it and not recognizing the symbiotic
relationship that that piece of land or
that stream with that River has with
everything else we see things in
isolation and so we’ve been caught up in
this world where we have a piece of
paper and we have a right to do
something we have a piece of paper we
have Dominion and control over something
I want to change that paradigm I want to
change their thinking I want us to think
differently about our environment and
how we interact with it so I’ve proposed
well I’ve looked debt people who have
been able to shift
thinking from resource management
environmental management or ownership
rights Dominion to something else
something different and I’ve come up
with three points well there’s probably
way more than three let’s be honest and
there’s probably at least a hundred but
I’ve come up with three points and the
first point is that in order to lead
change to change the paradigm to change
thinking you’ve got to be disruptive and
you’ve got to be the protagonist you’ve
got to be the positive deviant that
predicts new ideas that sees the
impossible as possible that in the and
the echoes of laughter you still move
forward with your idea with your crazy
thought and so I’m gonna talk about
peridot era which is one of my home
lands back in New Zealand and for those
of you who don’t know video weather is a
block of land that’s pretty big I don’t
know how big specifically but it’s
pretty big and it’s the home of my
people Knights you who the tribal people
of to Wayne and this land used to be a
national park which was owned by the
government by the crown I use government
crown they’re both the same but today in
2017 this land owns itself it’s its own
legal personality its own legal identity
crazy right
how can a piece of land with some
strains in a river and a and a lake or
to own itself and it’s these crazy ideas
that move us forward and project and new
possibilities and new futures new
opportunities they read a letter the
second point is the journey from Peru
the way they’re being controlled and
governed
by the government to owning itself
required patience resilience time
perseverance a whole lot of things
because the journey started in 1840 when
New Zealand was colonized from that
point in time our relationship with our
environment has changed
we had been dispossessed of our
relationship with our mother without
earth with our River with our streams
and so from that period we’ve been
trying to get back that relationship get
back that intimate relationship that we
had
without earth with our mother with our
failure and in 2014
leaders from within my tribe of my two
who were able to do that they were able
to present this idea that maybe because
originally how people actually sought to
own the land they didn’t want to own it
and that in terms of a Western sense of
ownership with exclusion of all others
they just saw that that the only legal
mechanism that was available to them at
their time was to actually own it and
then from that they will be able to
reforge the relationship that they lost
but the crown the government been the
government they don’t like giving over
power control Dominion all these sorts
of things said no there is no way that
we’re going to give you ownership so
they went back and they talked and they
had conversations and research and
explored and other options for how this
might work how we might be able to
reforge our relationship with our lands
and they decided let’s remove the word
ownership from the conversation let’s
say that no one owns this piece of land
and then the conversation changed and
then we created they would a Witter
a forest on our hilly our provider our
mother Alma died and that sustains us in
his own it is his own legal person the
third point is that in order to create a
paradigm shift a change in thinking
we’ve got to go from challenging the
status quo being disruptive to working
hard being resilient and moving through
the motions of time and then we’ve got
to get to a point where we create
something which is fair and just because
if it’s not fair and just then how do
people associate with it how are people
going to buy into it so the creation of
their route or whether this thing that
used to be a national park into a legal
person was purely but the legalization
or utilizing a legal tool to make a
tradition that we’ve been that we’ve
known for centuries to be true legal
we’ve always known that this land is our
mother well we all we needed to do was
just get a piece of paper to say that
and we know that to be innately true and
it’s something which drives our
principles our values as human beings it
doesn’t matter if you’re Marty Pacific
Islander from anywhere you understand
that relationship in that connection so
you can you can get it so it was crucial
that what was ever what was created was
understood by all now 2017 three years
on and we’re still on this journey
because we’ve been dispossessed as
associated with coexistence for such a
long time that we’ve got to kind of
recreate it and sort of move through the
notions of understanding what it looks
like and what it feels like and what it
is to co-exist and this
and some respects as a physical
representation of them this is a living
building and in 2000 and I think it was
in 2012 this building was constructed
and it’s the only living building in New
Zealand currently and it’s right in the
heart
well depends where you’re from with
Intuit or Witter but it’s in the heart
of Peru the Widder and this building is
you know self-sufficient it’s solar
heating it deals with its own storm
water rain water everything but the key
element of it is that it’s a living
building it sucks in life and gives our
life so in sort of in some respects
that’s what coexistence is about is
bringing taking an absorbing life and
then giving it out begin as well it’s
not some stagnant building that just
stands there and does nothing and looks
pretty it gives life
it gives being it has a modey modey
within Marty it means a life force then
its simplest form in its most complex
form
everything has a Modi and Modi is
everything and so this is what that is
so I guess I’ll just go back to my last
three points is that it’s about changing
the paradigm requires disruption second
point good work hard your lead
perseverant 177 years it took for this
to happen and you’ve got to create
something which is fear and just so I
know data and I’m here : about your
quarter I put in now cope in our code
though you’re a might I thought about
what Missy
[Applause]
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