Uncontacted Tribe Confronts Developers in Dramatic Video (greekreporter.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 07:38
https://lemmy.nz/post/2979348

Members of the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa tribe in Indonesia have been filmed recently confronting developers who tear up their forest.

Logging and mining operations on the Indonesian island are now penetrating the rainforest of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people.

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mrbonejangles@lemm.ee on 03 Nov 2023 07:43 next collapse

Literally Pandora

DessertStorms@kbin.social on 03 Nov 2023 10:45 next collapse

Ah yes, the real life indigenous people who have existed for thousands of years and are trying to defend their way of life - just like in that recent film! šŸ™„šŸ™„

[deleted] on 03 Nov 2023 11:16 collapse
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nevemsenki@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 11:05 collapse

Where’s the Vault Hunters when you need them?

SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es on 03 Nov 2023 12:21 collapse

Lol, wrong pandora. It’s the shitty remake of dances with wolves, the non shitty avatar movie, and shittier avatar franchise.

nevemsenki@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 12:27 collapse

There was an Avatar movie that wasn’t shit?

And yea I figured it’s not that Pandora, but I also figured it’s worth a shot. Despite how low they’ve fallen, I’d still rather remember Borderlands than Avatar!

SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es on 03 Nov 2023 12:44 collapse

Hmm, I’d say overall the avatar (blue people) movie wasn’t shit. It wasn’t breaking any new ground in story or such, but the visuals complemented the actors and didn’t break immersion in comedic, unintentional ways. So… mostly just by comparison to the shitty avatar (blue tattoos) movie.

I’ve only finished the first game. I keep getting stalled around mid-game in the second. Now, those games had some humor that didn’t break immersion.

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 08:21 next collapse

Company that mines nickel for ā€˜green’ electric cars destroys forest in doing so. Ironic

Diplomjodler@feddit.de on 03 Nov 2023 09:12 next collapse

Ah yes. Nickel is only used for electric cars. Right. Gotcha.

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 09:28 collapse

Ah yes. This is how the company apparently justifies it. Right in the article.

Overzeetop@kbin.social on 03 Nov 2023 10:24 collapse

Marketing: We need to defend this - what's something people are really excited about?

Engineer: Stainless steel; you can't make a good stainless without nickel

Salesman: Oooh - I know! How about nickels? Everybody loves nickels and their worth 5 cents each!

Engineer:

Marketing:

Intern: You know, they use nickel in battery packs for electric cars

Marketing: Oh, right - everybody likes electric cars. Green and vroom-vroom, I love it!

Engineer: You know that electric cars don't go vroom-vroom, right?

Marketing: I'm going with electric cars, it's a feel-good use people will get behind.

Num10ck@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 10:19 next collapse

plenty of nickel used to come from Russia but nyet anymore.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 11:31 collapse

There’s no sensible argument for the continuation of gasoline cars. Spills are much worse to the environment and the constant dumping of CO2 is literally causing millions of acres to burn.

Fuck off

solivine@sopuli.xyz on 03 Nov 2023 11:53 collapse

You can be mad at both, that was always allowed

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 12:33 next collapse

Being mad at both only helps the oil barons. Maybe we can wait until we aren’t setting off a new feedback loop every month before trying to make cars out of sunlight.

Resource extraction and vehicles are going to be a part of our society for a long time. I hate cars but anyone saying ā€œgreenā€ ev vehicle with those quotes is the enemy.

Nudding@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 14:06 collapse

Well no, our future is public transport, if we don’t kill ourselves first, which we will.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 14:43 collapse

Yes, 100%. But switching to ev right now is literally how we don’t kill ourselves first.

Nudding@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 15:00 collapse

By using gas and coal energy to mine lithium and nickel? Destroying millions of acres of forest in the process and contaminating God knows how much land and water?

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 15:45 collapse

Like I said, we can concentrate on making cars out of sunshine after we aren’t pumping death into the atmosphere.

Normal cars take resources as well to build and keep polluting non stop after they are built. Even worse, the resources they need just to run are fucking terrible for the environment to extract and use, not to mention the spills. There’s no contest, gas is always worse.

We don’t have time to transition to only public transport while keeping our dependence on oil.

It’s either EVs now and a public transport future, or gas induced suicide.

Nudding@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 19:57 collapse

We don’t have time

Exactly.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 20:35 collapse

Whats funny is that is also a big oil talking point. Either climate change doesn’t exist and EVs are stupid, or climate change does exist but it’s too late so it doesn’t matter what we drive. You are being manipulated into having no hopes so the profits keep rolling in, nice.

Nudding@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 21:18 collapse

I think cars in general are bad. I think fossil fuel executives should be shot. I don’t think you know my opinions as well as you think you do lol.

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Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 21:54 collapse

This seems to be in line with my thinking, I’m just trying not to play into their hand.

Nudding@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:37 collapse

No dude, I totally get it. Not much you can do except try and explain it to as many people as you can before you become exhausted. Plant as many trees as you can in the mean time and vote green party. Keep up the good fight.

vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org on 03 Nov 2023 12:34 collapse

NO! I must side with my political party on all topics! Otherwise I risk having a thought occur.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 12:46 collapse

I’m against oil propaganda, it has nothing to do with any political party. Gas companies are not your friend.

adam_y@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 08:51 next collapse

Read the headline, thought this was about the lengths people go to to complain to open source coders.

Chariotwheel@kbin.social on 03 Nov 2023 10:11 collapse

"My handaxe hasn't been working properly for two months now. I raised the issue back then and there's still nothing. Nothing! Fuck, Open Source, I am getting my next one from Google, these people know how to axe."

APassenger@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:03 collapse

ā€œAxes are now deprecated.ā€

APassenger@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:05 collapse

ā€œWe welcome everyone to try our new solution: Hatchet. Hatchet will be brought to complete parity with our previous solution.ā€

APassenger@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:07 collapse

ā€œHatchet will be taken offline three months from now. Monthly unique user counts never rose to expected levels and we cannot justify the continued support costs.

We want to thank our loyal users. We hope to serve you better in the future.ā€

livus@kbin.social on 03 Nov 2023 10:42 next collapse

Destruction of the surrounding environment isn’t the only problem facing the Hongana Manyawa. Their isolation from the wider world means they have little to no immunity to the common diseases we regularly come across in the industrialized world, meaning their population could easily be decimated by an infection, IFLScience reports.

APassenger@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:12 collapse

The Hongana Manyawa are an uncontacted tribe whose name means ā€œPeople of the Forestā€ in their language. There are an estimated 300 to 500 uncontacted members of the tribe, as well as 3,000 Hongana Manyawa people who were contacted in the 1980s and maintain some contact with the wider world.

But there was no mention of these thousands of people being decimated…

I’m not a fan of environmental degradation or basically stealing land from a tribe that appears to have been there since… Ever.

I’m just trying to distinguish fact from something that hits slightly off.

livus@kbin.social on 03 Nov 2023 22:44 collapse

@APassenger it's just poor reporting. Of course the contacted ones would already have been decimated back in the 1980s.

Lack of immunity to diseases from other areas is a very common phenomenon, so there's no reason to think this would be different.

A quick google found me this:

As with uncontacted tribes the world over, forced contact has proved disastrous for the Hongana Manyawa. They were immediately exposed to diseases to which they had no immunity – from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, terrible outbreaks of diseases which the Hongana Manyawa refer to as ā€œthe plagueā€ affected the newly-settled villages, leading to widespread suffering and even death.

"We had many different diseases when first settled, some of the sickness led to deaths, some people had fever that went on for days and nights and endless coughing for days and even weeks." - Hongana Manyawa man

They were nomadic and the Indonesian government relocated them. Source.

antaymonkey@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 13:27 collapse

ā€œDramatic videoā€ā€¦ seems like a stretch.