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Article: Notes from Indian Country: Save the planet. (Originated from Indian Country Today)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- July 20, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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There are those individuals who truly believe that Mother Earth has reached her end. Her oceans, rivers, mountains, cities, forests, skies, air and lands have been plundered, gouged, polluted, ravaged and raped.
The pursuit and the accumulation of material wealth by individuals, corporations and nations has become so intense that the end does appear to justify the means. If our nest is fouled or destroyed in the process, so what?
Modern technology has only served to accelerate the process, to make it more efficient. Machines have assumed the roles of those so-called pioneers who set out on many continents destroying the indigenous populations in the name of Manifest ...