Flip the lens on coastal assessments

For generations, environmental regulation has worn a single pair of glasses: Western science. It measures turbidity, counts fish biomass, models noise pollution. And after decades of collapsing fisheries, poisoned and blocked waterways, and a climate crisis, what has that approach delivered? Failure. Failure for nature. Failure for the communities who depend on it. Our kin, our teachers Meanwhile, the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Peskotomuhkati have watched the tides bring life to these Atlantic shores for millennia. The eel (katew) threading our estuaries. The turtle (mikjikj) nesting in coasta…