»Tribal peoples offer today’s world alternative
values
and ways of successful living; diversity is
important.«
from ”What are our guiding principles?“
It is incomprehensible that today indigenous
peoples are still being expelled from their territories. Incredible harm is
being caused out of sheer greed for profit, whereas it is perhaps the primeval
knowledge of these people, who are in close touch with nature, that is badly
needed for the whole of humankind to survive. The protection of indigenous
peoples is of great importance in the Natural Economy of Life. It is a blessing
that there are now already organisations campaigning to protect them.
From the standpoint of the Natural Economy of
Life, members of indigenous tribes contribute just as much to the threefold
creation of money as do any other people. They have the unconditional right to
participation and hence to an active basic income. They themselves know best
what they need and what they can contribute to the threefold good. They
are stewards of primeval knowledge which can be vital for humankind’s survival.
Their knowledge and their contact to nature may possibly be crucial to the
renaturalisation of the rain forests since most primeval knowledge is lost to
the so-called civilised peoples.
Only in close cooperation with the indigenous
tribes will we be able to survive as humankind and transform our earth back
into the paradise the creator must have made. Humankind expelled itself from
this paradise, as is reported by the holy scriptures of various religions and
cultures. But the paradise was never in another place; it was always here and
we have destroyed it almost beyond recognition. Together with the indigenous
peoples we have the chance to return to the lost paradise.
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