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Deforestation - The
Amazon's original keepers
And what of the Amazonians? They are
trapped between the old and the new. While they have their traditions,
our world encroaches upon them at every turn. Everyone wants
their land, from the poor people without land to the rich businessmen
with much land, and they cannot defend themselves with spears
against guns.
Our world has brought both opportunity and disease. They must
use our medicine to fight against new illnesses that we bring,
yet their illnesses require their traditional cures. They want
their tradition and their old world, we are destroying both.
They cannot exist in the way they were before anymore, but they
know the Amazon better than any of us. If we listened to them
instead of stealing from them, we could improve our usage of
the Amazon. |