An extraordinary post. The illustrations are beautiful. I was talking about the commodification of creatures causing their extinction in my piece today but no way was it as powerful as this. It's extraordinary that this can be allowed to happen and that protest is powerfully silenced. In Australia, Aboriginal communities are divided about whether it brings benefits in the form of much needed money that can help the community or whether it will destroy the very land that is their dreaming, their entire culture. There is no way we've had the extent of destruction that the Amazon people have suffered and I'm not convinced that the Australian people will let them, but I'm fairly naive I think.

Many of these protectors of our earth are brown and live in countries far removed from our cozy suburbs, malls, megachurches and stock markets, yet our lives, consumption, "wants and needs" and ideologies directly effect their lives. It is our demands on the environment which feed the exploitation of these communities and this is our problem as well as theirs.

Well said. We too often ignore our responsibility when we consume without thinking of the repurcussions.