Mother Earth and Climate Change
Nobody wants to visit a dirty home. France and England colonized Canada because it was clean: the air, the water and the ground they walked on.
If they had found it this year, in this state, they would have sailed on. There seems to be no reference to how indigenous people respected the land, which they call mother earth. They used it in small doses today in order to find food tomorrow. They hunted and fished what they needed and left the earth and air pristine for future generations.
France and England regarded that as foolishness because nothing was sold. Climate change is caused by tampering with nature, something we don’t know about. All the science in European and American universities will never know how nature functions. Our immediate concern is that it must be destroyed for economic development.
The problem with goods we produce is that they depend on whims. We like it today and discard it tomorrow when a more colourful toy hits the market. It’s frightening watching kids cry when you give them old toys.
Canada and all G7 countries will never advocate teaching the truth. Colonization was desecration of the land for money. They won’t do it because it will be admission that indigenous people are cleverer than the white man.
Comparison is not the issue. For millions of years indigenous people lived off the land, not in apartment buildings and ships. They had plenty common sense which is: if you don’t want to lose the land and air above it, use it wisely.
Indigenous knowledge should not be restricted to so-called Indigenous Studies.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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