Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Permaculture on Pitcairn/reparations
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:35:12 -0700
dwayne wrote:
I think that the colonial powers should make full and just reparations.
There was a wonderful piece in Resurgence mag a couple years ago by a
native South American (I've forgotten the particulars) in which he said
[paraphrasing], "What the Europeans took from the New World, historians
agree, fueled the late Renaissance and Industrial Revolution and
basically created the wealth they now enjoy. We in the South know that
the Europeans wouldn't want it to be thought that they just raped and
pillaged the entire New World to get that loot. And we're willing to
look at it differently, too. So let's agree that what was taken from us
in the 1500s to 1900s was a development loan. Okay, now pay it back,
with interest."
Toby
Re: [permaculture] Re: Permaculture on Pitcairn/reparations,
Toby Hemenway, 07/10/2003