Paige West, anthropologist and current director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, was quoted in a New York Times article published this week titled “There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way.” In the article, Professor West highlights the extent to which contemporary climate change and worsening biodiversity is linked to vestiges of colonialism. Paige West was a co-director of the former group Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering and Economics, a CSSD working group in which researchers utilized historically-bound and socioeconomic frameworks to create solutions around climate change in different regions.

Read the full NYT article here and learn more about Paige West’s work here.