A Comment About
World’s Scariest Words: ‘I’m an Environmentalist and I’m Here to Help’
June 11, 2008 - 12:30 am
Mary Madigan
2008-06-11 16:04:24
Perhaps if someone mentioned to this tribe that a new invention called “sanitation” might add 20 to 30 years to their expected life-span they may not be so keen to shrug off the modern world….
Contact with our civilization, and with our previously unknown diseases, might cut their life expectancy.
Ignorance isn’t bliss, and I personally wouldn’t like to live like these Indians, or like the Amish, or like the various tribes who choose to live in the coldest reaches of the Arctic. Fortunately, they’re not asking me to live the way they do. They’re certainly not forcing me to live as they do.
Our civilization can and should show them the same consideration.
