If recent climate-related crisis events tell us anything it is that the ecological problematic of our time cannot be understood as separate from the ongoing problems of imperialism, colonial oppression and marginalisation. This chapter focuses on the example of wildfire devastation in the Arctic to illustrate how imperial legacies are consolidated, rather than undermined, through sustainable development discourse and policy practice. It also examines how a non-recognition of the lived experiences and knowledge perspectives of Indigenous communities in the Arctic is enacted socially, culturally, politically and legally in ways that undermine prospects for a genuinely inclusive model of collective learning to proceed. It then considers proposals for a deliberative process that addresses these issues and allows an exploration of wrongdoing to emerge from within more situated perspectives on sustainable futures.