"You are probably not used to an Indigenous woman calling you ignorant ... But for #Indigenous peoples it is clear: the less you know about something, the less value it has to you, and the easier it is to destroy. And by easy, I mean: guiltlessly, remorselessly, foolishly, even righteously. And this is exactly what you are doing to us as Indigenous peoples, to our #rainforest territories, and ultimately to our planet’s climate."
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Misha
in reply to Misha • • •"It took us thousands of years to get to know the #Amazon rainforest. To understand her ways, her secrets, to learn how to survive and thrive with her. And for my people, the Waorani, we have only known you for 70 years (we were “contacted” in the 1950s by American evangelical missionaries), but we are fast learners, and you are not as complex as the rainforest."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth
Nemonte Nenquimo (The Guardian)