This is the "noble savage myth" dressed up for modern times as the "ecologically noble savage myth".

Colonialism is bad, yes.

But indigenous people didn't "live in balance with nature". Consider e.g. the massive ecological changes wrought by indigenous Australians, Easter Island, NZ Maori, etc. Megafauna extinction, massive deforestation, etc.

Human beings are human beings, regardless of their level of technological progress.

Terrible take on many levels, this assumes those indigenous populations would never have undergone their own industrial revolutions.

For reasons ranging from ‘noble savage’ to racist implications that they couldn’t if they tried.

https://ruthlesscriticism.com/environmentalism.htm is a banger article that talks about this, you can bet that whoever says "humanity is responsible for environmental destruction!!" without any care in the world for the existence of classes and their relations as being a secret hitlerite deep in the narratives

Also, to say how tribal primitive societies and its inhabitants were actually "ones with nature" is unhelpful. Not only is the idea veering dangerously close to racism/eugenics, implication being that indigenous were somehow genetically natural and primitive/backwards while peoples of the civilization are naturally cultural, civilized but destructive (in reality it being just a matter of current mode of production and historical development), but there's also evidence to the contrary given their lack in knowledge and/or limits in their actual interests of preservation.

I do take issue with this. Indigenous hunting practices are not really all that sustainable, they're just done in smaller amounts so the waste is less visible. We have the opportunity to use technology to live more sustainably in our environment; corpos just don't want to invest in that.

I'm not an expert on this, but I have a theory that the English are the dark souls style try hards of history.

English has a cold and dreary environment that's relatively hostile prior to literally terraforming it, every single edible plant in the isles comes from somewhere else, there are centuries worth of plagues that came out of the squalid living conditions, it's history is a revolving door of groups coming in to kill and pillage, and don't even get me started on the wolves.

It's basically centuries of playing on maximum hard mode. Then when you look at the people they colonized, India and the Americas were halcyonic in comparison. We're finding out that all the "wasted land" the colonials knocked over for fields in the US were massive, curated foraging gardens that could feed thousands for generations. They didn't realize they were knocking over the native equivalent to a free grocery store because they only ever used tree for murdering each other.

Now everyone is miserable because we let the guy that only plays regionally ranked mortal combat decide the rules we all have to play by when literally everyone else in the building wants to play animal crossing.

This is so condescending

It's also bullshit. There are plenty of examples of indigenous people destroying ecosystems

It's humans.

All humans.

Didn’t indigenous people fight over land and attack each other to take land?

Part of reconciliation ought to be us begging for help restoring balance to nature, and letting indigenous people benefit the most financially from green energy/ecological initiatives.

It's extra good because the begging part will infuriate the far right, and the watching non whites get rich off green energy will probably just explode their heads. It's a win-win-win.

Everybody's digging it, the indigenous are digging it too. Plenty of money to be dug up.

a 'unicorn event' in mining

'a treasure chest of all sorts of critical minerals,'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/norway-house-magnesium-mining-9.6985096