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moves into Ecological Overdraft, 2006 Why not use the remaining 83 days of the year to make yourself aware of your contribution to the planet's ecological overdraft and to work out how well you'd get on if you had to improvise and live on reduced resources. Click here for some ideas. 'We
respect whites but they don't respect us' We left our land in the Xingu to come to Europe to speak out about the many, problems we are facing. All the headwaters of the great Xingu river are very polluted. This is because the white people who are agriculturalists throw in toxic pesticides. They chuck everything in there - rubbish, empty cans and bottles of rum. They also kill the wild animals and they leave the dead bodies rotting by the river banks. We Mehinaku use the water to bathe in, to drink from and to fish. We are fisher people - we don't eat red meat. In the Xingu there is a lot of fish, every type of fish. Fish are so important to us and now the fish are dying. [Click to read the whole article on the Guardian website]
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