One of the main problems with our society today, as has been true for hundreds of years, is the competitiveness, which breeds a sense of egotism.
People become ingrained with the idea that they know everything and what is right and that their way of doing things is the right way.
They do this in part because of their conviction that the wonders of technology are so much better than everything that came before because of the
increase in ease and standard of living that are afforded by these short-term comforts. However, what people are not realizing in our society
is that this way of life is not sustainable. They are not realizing also that the people that were displaced out of America, the Indigenous People
(also known as the Native American Indians), were a far more advanced civilization that had learned to live in a more sustainable manner and had
been living in harmony with the Earth for thousands of years.
The Indigenous People have been treated very poorly, to the point of Genocide, in the Americas for hundreds of years, since the time of Christopher
Columbus. This is due to the egotism of the European settlers who considered themselves superior and having a better idea of how to live in these
Americas. However, the European settlers of old are about to be proven wrong if this society and civilization comes to a crashing halt because of
the problems of global warming, pollution, nuclear contamination, war, chemicals of destruction, and lack of spiritual connectedness.
In these times, the Indigenous People hold the greatest promise of protecting the environment because of the treaties signed hundreds of years ago
that they can point to in a legal way that are some of the last strongholds protecting the environment today. Therefore, Americans today should
honor and listen to the Indigenous People and learn from them the wisdom of how to live sustainably in the Americas and give them back what was
stolen from them.
