Climate change causing historical injustices to come to the surface | DailyTidings.com
Climate change is already severely impacting Native American tribes.
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Native villages in Alaska, heavily reliant on subsistence hunting and foraging that have supported native people for thousands of years, are having to turn to packaged foods, which cost more and lead to diabetes and other health problems. Many people have compared climate change to yet another trail of tears
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Marni Koopman, Ph.D., is a climate change scientist and wildlife biologist for the Geos Institute.
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Go to any First Nation town and investigate the grocery stores. The locals eat high carb diets for the same reason the rest of us do - it tastes good, it's easy and they want to.
Few people, regardless of culture, exercise any more than they have to, and eat and drink any healthier than they have to. Indigenous peoples are no different. Since there are also genetic factors that increase the harm of the sedentary lifestyle, you could argue that, in theory, the indigenous people would be more careful than the average. But then they would be unlike people anywhere else in the world.
We still have this Rouseauian, Noble Savage view of the pre-industrial man or woman, who would live in harmony with nature and each other, living cleanly and holistically like some acolytes of downtown New York spa. It is a form of reverse racism: by birth, the First Nations people are superior to the rest of us Greco-Latino influenced ex-Europeans.
Except that we keep them down: superior by nature, behaving badly because we have the power to make them misbehave. Sheesh.
The real problem is that First Worlders don't want to admit that they abuse the world and their own bodies because they enjoy a lifestyle like that, and it is too much bother do do differently. So they say that this Industrial Culture is a demon set upon Man, and that without it the Eden and the Edenites would return.
Not if there was a snickers bar left on the planet. For any of us bipeds.
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