Into the Depths of the Amazon

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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.

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