Now, in response to climate change, these same people want to put Mother Earth at risk with geoengineering technologies. We can’t afford to threaten our planet in this way, especially when simple, just and proven solutions are at hand. – Ben Powless (Mohawk Nation) Indigenous Environmental Network
Ben Powless: For too long our peoples’ bodies and lands have been used to test new technologies
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In response to the information about the tinkering with the atmoshere. And what if it works? Can you imagine what will ahppen after that? We thought we had a problem with the white people before. It will come to that we’ll have to buy our weather. The only way to put Mother Earth back on course, plants Billions of trees, perhaps planting trees in certain areas will have the wanton outcomes to the ‘global warming.’ What we were forced to learn in science let’s use that knowledge and plant the trees to get the cylce going again, in our favor, naturally.