We are in the same kind of situation as First Nations people being offered beads for land, and not actually comprehending the terms of the deal because the idea of country being privatised was too, too wierd to comprehend. There is a huge and accelerating cultural shift going on, in which \*everything\* we have thought of as natural, given, the water we swim in, is being taken, used, turned into private wealth. 2/3
None of us can take our little share of the air and say, no, you're not allowed to run this through your private jet and spit out the polluted, depleted remains. And it's the same with our cultural heritage. To me it's akin to the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan, or Rio Tinto and Juukan Gorge, or Exxon and climate. 3/3