The Indigenous People in North America and South America are all Native Americans. We are all dealing with the same types of problems by the White European People: Mining Companies mining oil, gas, and coal to get wealthy.
In America, we are dealing with oil and gas companies extracting natural resources from the earth while destroying the environment in the process. This is occurring in North and South Dakota. This is occurring in the Southwest. This is occurring throughout the United States.
The same is happening in South America where the rainforest is located. Mining companies are mining Native American lands. In Ecuador, the Waorani Nation filed a lawsuit against the mining companies. The Native Americans won their law suit. ("Ecuador tribe wins legal battle over the Amazon")
A court in Ecuador has upheld a ruling that prevents the government from selling land in the Amazon rainforest to oil companies...This week's ruling protects half a million acres of land in the Amazon forest on which the Waorani have lived for centuries from being earmarked for oil drilling, campaigners said....The head of Amazon Frontlines Mitch Anderson said the win "shows once again that the fate of the Amazon rainforest, and consequently our climate, hinges on whether or not indigenous people can continue to protect their rainforest territories and cultures".
Everybody, even the mining companies' CEO's families, need oxygen to live. It is estimated that about 20% of the oxygen in the world is produced by the Amazon rainforest. If the rainforest is destroyed, then there is less oxygen for everybody. Is the goal of these mining companies to kill all the humans of the planet, starting with the Indigenous Peoples, by ruining the land, ruining the water, ruining the air, making it harder to breathe? I'm beginning to think that making money is not really the goal of these mining companies.
After the Native Americans won their lawsuit in Ecuador, the rainforest caught on fire. It has not been determined how the rainforest caught on fire. A lot of people are speculating that it's the mining companies that started the fire. ("Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says")
