Survival International has been documenting these enclosure movements for virgin green openspace mining or dams starving and moving indigenous tribes into reservations and Bantustans across Africa and in India too.
"But there is a deeper problem. Schmid and Osorio note the contrast between the world of business, contracts, payment schedules, and contract conditions, and Indigenous Peoples’ profound relationship with forest and territory."
When you spill money into this cultural melieu, money which represents profits extracted from other's resources and off other labourer's backs, it overrides, nullifies, the people's relationships with their natural, living world and replaces it with the jingle in the pockets of the Easy Life and introduces the concept of poverty where previously there was natural wealth. If only the Rich countries could learn this!
Survival International has been documenting these enclosure movements for virgin green openspace mining or dams starving and moving indigenous tribes into reservations and Bantustans across Africa and in India too.
Thanks for this Gladwyn. Survival International is featured regularly on REDD-Monitor:
https://reddmonitor.substack.com/t/survival-international
"But there is a deeper problem. Schmid and Osorio note the contrast between the world of business, contracts, payment schedules, and contract conditions, and Indigenous Peoples’ profound relationship with forest and territory."
When you spill money into this cultural melieu, money which represents profits extracted from other's resources and off other labourer's backs, it overrides, nullifies, the people's relationships with their natural, living world and replaces it with the jingle in the pockets of the Easy Life and introduces the concept of poverty where previously there was natural wealth. If only the Rich countries could learn this!