As developers push ever deeper into the remaining wilderness, they often come into conflict with indigenous people. Those people have rights, and when it comes to conservation and the vital importance of not sawing off the branch you are standing on, they are a lot smarter than executives, oil barons, or politicians.
Greg Palast | Oil and Indians Don’t Mix
Greg Palast, GregPalast.com: “There’s an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shooing methods include: bulldozers, bullets, crooked politicians and fake land sales.”
Three Questions
1) Do you believe that “might makes right,” supporting conquest as a means of land acquisition?
2) What harm is done by forcing indigenous people off their land, threatening and/or killing them in the process, and how much of the moral stain applies to people who benefit from the end products so extracted?
3) What are some alternative approaches or resources we could use instead?
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