ABSTRACT
This chapter will depart from most of the others in the volume to examine a standpoint on climate change not from the Western scientists, politicians, activists, and media actors who dominate the global forum on the future of the planet, but from a non-Western people with a distinct land ethic, conception of community, and interpretation of climate issues. The analysis that follows, of climate change discourse in one indigenous smallholder farming community in east central Mexico, resonates with Heather Smith’s call (this volume) to attend to “indigenous voices” in renewing approaches to climate change questions. This detailed case study focuses on a community far away from high profile climate change forums.
