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Becky Dougherty
is 99% done
this feels like the most impactful pukapuka I picked up in 2025. It was so ātaahua, moving (cried lots), inspiring, challenging, hopeful. I cannot recommend this enough to anyone who calls Aotearoa home - it tied climate justice so tightly to how we all live/love/lose. “We are lucky in this life if we get the chance to say some things. And to let some things remain unsaid also”
— Dec 20, 2025 03:46PM
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Becky Dougherty
is on page 228 of 240
‘I am tangata whenua. I am not Māori, I am tangata whenua. What makes me tangata whenua? The whenua. If I have no relationship with the whenua, then I’m just tangata. That doesn’t make any sense. We are nothing without the land’ - this pukapuka has laid down an awesome wero in regards to learning more about the whenua I call my kainga!
— Dec 20, 2025 03:42PM
Becky Dougherty
is on page 187 of 240
“This country is big, powerful and exciting. In the raw it is rough, formidable, awe-inspiring - absolutely beautiful. Let us have these impressions soak steadily in, making us newer for what we do have. Then and only then, will we begin to work in a vital way” quote from Barry Brickell in this pukapuka
— Dec 20, 2025 02:51PM
Becky Dougherty
is on page 152 of 240
Really really enjoying this book about te ao Māori + climate justice. So nice to have someone talking about climate adaptation/mitigation in a way that actually makes comprehensible sense to the reader rather than in science jargon. Is making me feel like my job at MfE is a little evil, but I think that’s good. Gotta keep questioning !
Ps everyone post long reviews on goodreads pls this is my social media rn
— Dec 20, 2025 12:13PM
Ps everyone post long reviews on goodreads pls this is my social media rn
