In a world of Indian wars, exploitative colonialism and widespread chattel slavery, pre-Confederation BC briefly stood out as a model of how a diverse, multi-ethnic society could live in cooperation with a region's first peoples. As we seek reconciliation, BC, in contrast to the rest of Canada, can find more guidance in its past than most realize.
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Greedy opportunistic rule has triumphed over human capacities. I fear we are forgetting who we are as a species. Most of this planet's problems are caused by this greed. Even as we watch vast lands flooded or succumb to wild fires, those who have arrested democracy for their own interests fail to learn anything.
We need to pay attention to the Indigenous people as they are doing more to save this planet than our governments.
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