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Archive for February 10, 2009
Brokering Ethnic Cleansing
February 10, 2009 by Jay Taber.
Fourth World genocide today — as in centuries past — involves real estate brokerage, political patronage, and a barrage of bromides. In the past, ethnic cleansing of continents held promise as a civilizing influence on the landscape and the natives who inhabited it. Taming nature, if you will.
Today, it is the preservation of nature in its wild state — without the natives, of course — that tops the agenda of civilized societies.
In the future, the wild savages — now known as tribal peoples and aboriginals — should the brokers like The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund have their way, will exist only in museums. It is the inevitable outcome of Free Market environmentalism, the predetermined result of commodifying nature. Brokering ethnic cleansing is just too big a business to leave room for Indigenous societies.
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