Independence activists want to combine the best parts of liberal democracy with Indigenous traditions.
in 2020 that Korean palm oil giant Korindo has cleared nearly 60,000 hectares of West Papuan forest, an area the size of Seoul.Wenda and the ULMWP have a plan for such a transformation. The“The Green State Vision is our offer to the world,” Wenda said. “We have the solution to the global climate crisis. Indigenous people should be able to manage their lands as they have done for thousands of years.
Measures would include making ecocide a serious criminal offense and compelling resource extraction companies to work within an ecologically sustainable framework. Guardianship of the forests, lands, and rivers will be restored to “customary authorities at family, clan and tribal level”. ’, pointed out at the conference, while 5% of the world population is officially considered to be indigenous, they appear in 40% of known environmental justice disputes in the world.
“Indigenous people are defending their rights at the extraction frontiers, motivated by their own cultural values and interests – sacredness, identity, and livelihood – against coloniality and racism,” Martinez-Alier added.
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