The biggest mistake humanity can make, in my opinion, is thinking we know anything. As in, thinking we can “fully understand” anything to the point of being able to have complete control or that we can just “own” anything. Nothing is ours: not the air, the oceans, the animals, the plants, the ecosystems, or the land we live on. More so, what baffles me, is that the productivity indigenous communities obtained was actually acknowledged by the colonists who ripped their land away from them. Despite this, they ignored the equilibrium ecosystem that was extremely successful they were presented with, and just absolutely destroyed it. It’s almost impossible for me to understand how they could’ve so blatantly just proceeded with their atrocities and inefficiencies- and what? Think that there would be no consequences to their destructive and uneducated behavior? It makes me so upset that colonialism ripped away so much from nature, the land, and the Indigenous people who had been living their for generations.
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