The real Avatar

I know i've been banging on and on about Avatar because mainly it is happening now, not in some distant past, but right here and right now. I found this on the web.

So here are two of them, written already. I've decided to put my money where my mouth with and start reading up and maybe at some stage being able to do something about the indigenous people who live in these astonishing scared places. I don't care if i'm effective or not. The point is that i'm going to be doing something.

The Real Avatar

Here's the end of the article the journalist wrote:

"While the film Avatar ends with the indigenous aliens securing their home from corporate and military invaders, in reality that outcome is rare. Often these conflicts drag on for decades with the indigenous tribes, despite best efforts, tragically losing their home bit-by-bit. Forests are decimated, biodiversity lost, carbon released into the atmosphere, and the tribe is slowly weakened and destroyed from without, their culture and traditions attacked at the same time as their territory is knocked down.

Despite the repeated unjustness, rarely do these stories reach the mainstream media in the industrial world. Companies act with impunity, devastating forests and homes in part to feed the insatiable appetites of developed and emerging economies for furniture, oil palm, gas, and crude oil.

While Avatar is a fun, showy film that many may view as simple sci-fi entertainment, the film clearly alludes to struggles and injustices that one doesn't need to travel across the galaxy to see, but are occurring right here on planet Earth."