They are Living in Harmony with Nature.
I am not against progress, but there is a price we pay in the developed world when we suppress the laws of nature. One thing I am understanding about indigenous peoples is that they are the richest people in our world. I'm not talking about economics, but the wisdom and knowledge indigenous peoples provide our culture and the culture of the world, is literally priceless. We cannot understand fully what it means to live off the land, or to live in harmony with nature, but they can. We are a developed country and we have never had to live off the land. Yes there were pioneers and they really did live off the land, but somewhere the harmony was broken. I want to say that there is an interdependence between indigenous peoples and the so called developed world.
Part of our environmental crisis lies in the fact that we don't see or understand this. We live in a state of dependence on each other, and there isn't a need now to go back fully to living off the land, but we definitely need to learn the skill of living in harmony with the land and nature. Governments must not only foster the respect and independence of indigenous peoples, but we need to learn again how they lived and live. The rainforest is a perfect example of this harmony. Clearly it is not only a sin to not fully preserve this forest fully, the destruction is silent. It comes from not understanding the laws of interdependence. Not only is every human being dependant upon another, the whole biodiversity of species is interdependent on each other. What happens in the rainforest affects us here in Canada, and in other places in the world.
To fully understand this we need to look at a spider's web. The web is really fragile to the spider even though it traps other insects for food. For us humans, we can destroy the whole ecology of the spider's sustenance by one wave of our hand. Our earth is like this web, there is an unseen interdependence between all living things, called ecosystems. We are part of a human ecosystem and we live on this earth with laws and governments and rules. If we are not careful, we could destroy the sustainability of our modern day ecosystem and it's natural laws. It is my belief that nature should work in harmony with this progress. Part of our environmental crisis is that: most people are not seeing this truth. When people stand up to proclaim this, they are misunderstood.(sometimes.) This is Mike.
I am not against progress, but there is a price we pay in the developed world when we suppress the laws of nature. One thing I am understanding about indigenous peoples is that they are the richest people in our world. I'm not talking about economics, but the wisdom and knowledge indigenous peoples provide our culture and the culture of the world, is literally priceless. We cannot understand fully what it means to live off the land, or to live in harmony with nature, but they can. We are a developed country and we have never had to live off the land. Yes there were pioneers and they really did live off the land, but somewhere the harmony was broken. I want to say that there is an interdependence between indigenous peoples and the so called developed world.
Part of our environmental crisis lies in the fact that we don't see or understand this. We live in a state of dependence on each other, and there isn't a need now to go back fully to living off the land, but we definitely need to learn the skill of living in harmony with the land and nature. Governments must not only foster the respect and independence of indigenous peoples, but we need to learn again how they lived and live. The rainforest is a perfect example of this harmony. Clearly it is not only a sin to not fully preserve this forest fully, the destruction is silent. It comes from not understanding the laws of interdependence. Not only is every human being dependant upon another, the whole biodiversity of species is interdependent on each other. What happens in the rainforest affects us here in Canada, and in other places in the world.
To fully understand this we need to look at a spider's web. The web is really fragile to the spider even though it traps other insects for food. For us humans, we can destroy the whole ecology of the spider's sustenance by one wave of our hand. Our earth is like this web, there is an unseen interdependence between all living things, called ecosystems. We are part of a human ecosystem and we live on this earth with laws and governments and rules. If we are not careful, we could destroy the sustainability of our modern day ecosystem and it's natural laws. It is my belief that nature should work in harmony with this progress. Part of our environmental crisis is that: most people are not seeing this truth. When people stand up to proclaim this, they are misunderstood.(sometimes.) This is Mike.
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