How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.

How linear is time? Is there more flexibility in the seasons than a clock suggests? In Māori thinking, seasonal change isn't a straight line but an unfolding - a process of revealing rather than meeting fixed thresholds.

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