Posted on 08/09/2023 4:51:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Indigenous people around the world are defending their human rights and culture as well as nature and their homeland. Time and again, they are faced with massive repression, discrimination and racism. There are approximately half a billion indigenous people worldwide.
Defending their rights often goes hand in hand with a call for better environmental and climate protection. They frequently pay for it with their lives.
Between 2012 and 2021, human rights groups documented the deaths of more than 1,700 environmental and homeland defenders in some 60 countries. More than 35% of those killed were identified as indigenous people.
At the heart of the conflict are often major mining industry projects, wood clearing for the purpose of farming, reservoir dams, and extraction of oil, gas and coal.
"Our people lived on this continent for over 60,000 years," Adrian Burragubba, the leading cultural custodian of the Jagalingou people, told DW.
According to media reports, mining could cause water levels of underground springs to drop. For the indigenous people, the springs are sacred and are essential for the survival of the local environment. Other issues included air, noise and light pollution around the clock, Barragubba said. Mining also had an impact on insect populations, with ramifications for the whole ecosystem, he added.
During its projected 60-year lifetime, the mine could emit nearly 2% of the total amount of carbon dioxide still available to humans in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Since the era of colonization, Australia's indigenous people have been exposed to racism and discrimination. Barragubba said, if their native land is not handed over to them, the Jagalingou can at least try and beat the government at its own game, namely through exercising human rights. They continue to visit their holy sites near the mining area and celebrate.
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That must mean they should be fighting for more immigrant control, as mass migration threatens both nature and homelands.
The Indigenous peoples hunted the great plains animals like the giant elk and the great sloth to extinction long before Europeans got here.
If you ever want to make liberals heads explode on this topic, ask them if they support indigenous Jews over colonial Arabs in Israel.
Same thing happened in New Zealand with the Maori basically finishing off the giant Moa and doing that guaranteed the extinction of Haast’s eagle well before the white man (pakeha) arrived.
Self-identified indigenous people?
If it is fertile land with a moderate climate, the human ownership changed hands violently at least a half dozen times during the last 50,000 years!
Germany is scalping forests in North Carolina and Bulgaria to produce “renewable” wood fuel, leaving scraped earth behind.
Do poor black Tarheels and Bulgarians not on the take count as native peoples, deserving of respect?
The indigenous people also used a lot of slash and burn techniques that would make “environmentalists” heads explode today.
“Indigenous peoples are the first inhabitants of an area and their descendants. “
Doesn’t that make us all “indigenous people” of somewhere?
Yeah, so your people have been here longer than others?
That’s like claiming such “status” for being a member of FR longer than others, SO WHAT? BFD.
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