END:CIV - Premise 2

Last week the supposed defenders of the environment, A.K.A. the Environmental Non Governmental Organizations or E.N.G.O.s, cut a "deal" with timber industries to protect a large chunk of the Boreal forest. On the surface this agreement looks good, but the entire deal was not published, only an abridged version was made available online. Some of the groups that took part of this deal are Greenpeace, the David Suzuki Foundation and Forest Ethics. The one aspect of this "accomplishment" that they are not publicizing is that they struck it without consulting with the First Nations, the original human inhabitants of those lands. As we face increasingly catastrophic environmental destruction, it is imperative that we seek guidance from those who "managed" the environment sustainably for over 10,000 years. This short piece from "END:CIV" is a visual interpretation of Derrick Jensen's Second Premise from ENDGAME: Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resource