Comments on: Perenco advises staff to ‘Scare the uncontacted tribes or tell them to go home’

By: Dieguito Lupino

Dieguito Lupino — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:10:43 +0000

“As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, our iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.”

William Howard Taft

Have we as a society still not yet learned this?

By: Juro

Juro — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:44:15 +0000

Shouldn’t the telling of people to “go home” be the other way around?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:55:39 +0000

Are they trying to explore in protected areas? It’s really disturbing how multi-national companies all over the world trample upon indigenous rights. I guess they’ll just claim “Manifest Destiny.”

Here’s a post I did on the damages of mining and exploration on Native lands:

http://rachelinperu.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/the-devastating-price-of-silver-gold/

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:28:17 +0000

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”