It wasn't that long ago, in an attempt to increase export income, the forests of New Zealand were torched with napalm then seeded with grass (all from the air) so that sheep could cover the land. Now it's tree plantations? This is happening all over the Global South, yes it is colonization on an industrial scale. https://www.carbonbrief.org/loggers-have-grabbed-around-1m-hectares-of-indigenous-land-in-drc/
Nothing ever good comes from pouring money out on the land, except for more debt - ecological and generational. Logging debris left behind? Privatize the profits, socialize the expenses - The Corporate Manifesto.
It wasn't that long ago, in an attempt to increase export income, the forests of New Zealand were torched with napalm then seeded with grass (all from the air) so that sheep could cover the land. Now it's tree plantations? This is happening all over the Global South, yes it is colonization on an industrial scale. https://www.carbonbrief.org/loggers-have-grabbed-around-1m-hectares-of-indigenous-land-in-drc/
Nothing ever good comes from pouring money out on the land, except for more debt - ecological and generational. Logging debris left behind? Privatize the profits, socialize the expenses - The Corporate Manifesto.
Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand. They came here on boats like many of our european forfathers.