"...In recent decades serious environmental issues have threatened our lands. We’ve experienced polluted waters and forests from mining, depletion of fish from hydro dams, ...
Development should be sustainable and socially responsible. It should not disrupt our ability to continue harvesting and practising our cultures. ..."
"...some Native Hawaiians have taken to calling their unique version by a slightly different term: plantation disaster capitalism. It’s a name that speaks to contemporary forms of #neocolonialism and #ClimateProfiteering, like the real estate agents who have been cold-calling #Lahaina residents ... and prodding them to sell their ancestral lands rather than wait for compensation. ..."
Lots of witty stories about their work with the orang asal (indigenous people of peninsular Malaysia), who sadly make up less than one percent of the population, but still make dope baskets and weaved… cat toys? 🙃 The latter is a collaboration with Gerai AO to make marketable, sellable things.