{"id":272478,"date":"2023-08-09T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272478"},"modified":"2023-08-09T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:22:56","slug":"protecting-sacred-lands-as-part-of-managed-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272478","title":{"rendered":"Protecting \u2018sacred\u2019 lands as part of \u2018managed decline\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"409\" data-attachment-id=\"272493\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=272493\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/070554678007-biden-grand-canyon-national-monument-0005.webp?fit=3200%2C1809&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3200,1809\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/070554678007-biden-grand-canyon-national-monument-0005.webp?resize=1200%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/070554678007-biden-grand-canyon-national-monument-0005.webp?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/070554678007-biden-grand-canyon-national-monument-0005.webp?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/duggan\/\">Duggan Flanakin<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"498\" data-attachment-id=\"272479\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=272479\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?fit=792%2C546&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"792,546\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-346\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?fit=723%2C498&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?resize=723%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?w=792&amp;ssl=1 792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-346.png?resize=768%2C529&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration\u2019s minerals policy will tighten China and Russia\u2019s grip on America\u2019s declining future. On August 8, Biden permanently banned new uranium mining claims on nearly a million acres of the nation\u2019s largest deposits of uranium ore by creating the Baaj Nwaavjo I\u2019tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move follows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/03\/21\/fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-avi-kwa-ame-national-monument\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden\u2019s creation<\/a>\u00a0in March of the Avi Kwa Ame National Park in Nevada, an action that removed 514,000 acres of lithium-rich public lands. Both these actions are touted as honoring Native American sacred sites in a nation that claims not to have a state religion. But we must assuage our guilt over centuries of slavery and genocide long in our past \u2013 and at the expense of our common future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itcaonline.com\/member-tribes\/havasupai-tribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">240 members<\/a>\u00a0of the 640-member Havasupai Tribe, the chief advocates for creating the monument, live on the 188,000-acre Havasupai Reservation in the Grand Canyon region. A number of small tribal groups claim the Avi Kwa Ame area as among the most sacred places on Earth. The national park and national monument designations may bring more tourists but bar any exploitation of the areas\u2019 vital mineral resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, China \u201chonors\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-22278037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its Uyghurs<\/a>\u00a0and other ethnically Turkic Muslim peoples by forcing them into hard labor at its own lithium mines that dishonor Uyghur \u201csacred sites.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59595952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genocide<\/a>\u00a0is just fine when it is half a planet away. None of our business (remember the South Africa boycotts?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the BBC, \u201cHuman rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls \u201cre-education camps\u201d and sentenced hundreds of thousands to prison terms.\u201d Uyghur women are reportedly sterilized and raped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC also reports that China had (as of 2021) had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-56986057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detained<\/a>\u00a0over a thousand mostly Uyghur clerics and thrown over 300 of them into prison, banned religious practices in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, destroyed mosques and tombs, and taken other steps to erase Uyghur culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese companies are also \u201chonoring\u201d the presumed \u201csacred sites\u201d of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/religious-beliefs-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-congo-kinshasa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mostly Christian<\/a>\u00a0Congolese and their ancestral faiths by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/08\/cobalt-drc-miners-toil-for-30p-an-hour-to-fuel-electric-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forcing children<\/a>\u00a0as young as eight years old to work in horrific conditions to extract cobalt for Chinese-made electric vehicles. But perhaps African never had any \u201csacred sites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/08\/cobalt-drc-miners-toil-for-30p-an-hour-to-fuel-electric-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British newspaper<\/a>\u00a0The Guardian reports that, over the past 15 years, Chinese companies have gained control of the majority of DRC cobalt and copper mines \u2013 and that, \u201cwith this change, Congolese workers, say, has come abuse, discrimination and racism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Congolese worker complained that, \u201cWe feel humiliated and embarrassed. The way they are treating our people, you can\u2019t believe. We are just expecting them to have respect for human life, instead of using people like slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither the Uyghurs nor the Congolese have seen any share of the massive profits the Chinese are extracting from these \u201cstolen lands.\u201d Instead, the Uyghurs are demeaned, their schools and institutions assaulted, and their families abased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the DRC, CDM, the Chinese-owned company that supplies cobalt to Renault and Daimler claims it is building and renovating schools and providing water and electricity to local villages. But one villager who dared speak up scoffed that, \u201cThere is no drinking water, no electricity, no school, no healthcare. Our community is right next to CDM, but they don\u2019t do anything for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thezimbabwean.co\/2023\/02\/mutoko-villagers-face-eviction-by-chinese-lithium-mining-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zimbabwe<\/a>, a Chinese company earlier this year began a campaign to displace hundreds of Mutoko villagers from their ancestral lands to facilitate construction of yet another lithium mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 2021 report, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre in London reported 181 accusations of human rights violations related to Chinese investments in Africa from 2013 to 2020, mostly in Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and the DRC. Africans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.gariwo.net\/texts-and-contexts\/human-rights-and-crimes-against-humanity\/the-violent-side-of-chinese-colonialism-in-africa-25223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commonly complain<\/a>\u00a0about the paltry wages and lack of safety equipment on Chinese-run construction sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it gets worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After learning that a shocking video of Namibian children chanting \u201cI am a black monster and my IQ is low\u201d appeared on a popular Chinese social media site, BBC Africa Eye\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-61764466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporters<\/a>\u00a0Runako Celina and Henry Mhango uncovered a growing industry of Chinese \u201cpoverty porn\u201d videos showing African children as \u201ccommodities that could be made to sing and dance for profit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China, they learned, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/stepin-fetchit#:~:text=Perry%20became%20a%20pariah%20by%201953%2C%20when%20Black,became%20a%20member%20of%20the%20Nation%20of%20Islam.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its own version<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cStepin Fetchit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of these revelations seems to bother the Biden Administration, which \u201crewarded\u201d China by ceding control of Afghanistan\u2019s Bagram Airport in 2021 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/02\/20\/taliban-convert-bagram-other-ex-military-bases-special-economic-zones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Taliban<\/a>, which recently announced it would turn the airport into a special economic zone likely dominated by its Chinese neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden had earlier canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline, imposed mandates for China-dominated electric vehicles, and taken numerous other actions that weaken America\u2019s energy and manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3512385-why-is-biden-appeasing-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scathing report<\/a>\u00a0in Thte Hill announced that \u201cBiden is quietly dismantling, brick by brick, the Trump Administration\u2019s (tough on) China policy without drawing attention to it.\u201d While many of the Trump-imposed tariffs continue, Biden\u2019s response to the Chinese spy balloons, purchases of land near U.S. military bases, and other adversarial actions (notably in the South China Sea) indicate an apparent ceding of world hegemony to Xi Jinpeng and the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-administrations-approach-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent speech<\/a>, China \u201cposes the most serious long-term challenge to the international order \u2026 [and] \u2026 is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it.\u201d So why not hasten that day along?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, the Biden family has reportedly been well paid by Chinese (and other) \u201cinfluencers\u201d for unknown services rendered. But perhaps China\u2019s ascendancy is but a byproduct of following the Obama Administration\u2019s \u201cperfect plan for the economic decline of America,\u201d as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterferrara\/2012\/06\/21\/president-obamas-perfect-plan-for-the-economic-decline-of-america\/?sh=787f72de7072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Ferrara wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a 2012 op-ed in Forbes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year earlier, Eric Laursen, in the HuffPost, had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/us-managed-decline_b_874099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defined<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmanaged decline\u201d as \u201cthe devolution of a society into a starkly divided hierarchy of elites and dead-enders, even as more and more of that society\u2019s treasure is expended on propping up a doomed imperial regime inside and outside its borders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such domestic policies \u2013 that increase debt, strangle entrepreneurship, and focus on trivia to distract from declining educational, ethical, and other standards necessary for high-performing societies \u2013 often need to create \u201cfeel good\u201d moments to survive reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, to Joe Biden and the so-called \u201cgreen\u201d movement (much of which embraces decline), protecting Native American \u201csacred\u201d sites (which likely cover the entirety of the North and South American continents) is far more important than protecting the lives of millions of living people from the same kinds of torment that Americans once unleashed on its own indigenous (and enslaved) populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, saving the world is no longer part of the American agenda. America today is hardly the \u201cshining city u[on a hill\u201d President Reagan described in his farewell address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither is ensuring the long-term prosperity of this nation and its children, who today (like those in Namibia) are seen more as commodities to be exploited for short-term gain and pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May as well bankrupt this country and return it to the Native Americans \u2014 and surrender our future to the \u201cfar superior\u201d Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dugganflanakin\/2023\/08\/09\/protecting-sacred-lands-as-part-of-managed-decline-n2626789\">Town Hall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"292\" data-attachment-id=\"272490\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=272490\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?fit=291%2C292&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"291,292\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-347\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?fit=291%2C292&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?resize=291%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?w=291&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-347.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"pp-author-boxes-name multiple-authors-name\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(60, 67, 74); font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/duggan\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Duggan Flanakin\" class=\"fn author url\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear; color: var(--link_color); margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em;\">Duggan Flanakin<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"pp-author-boxes-description multiple-authors-description\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(60, 67, 74); font-family: Oxygen; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"pp-author-boxes-description multiple-authors-description\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(60, 67, 74); font-family: Oxygen; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"pp-author-boxes-description multiple-authors-description\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(60, 67, 74); font-family: Oxygen; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">A brief history of his multifaceted career appears in his book, &#8220;Infinite Galaxies: Poems from the Dugout.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration\u2019s minerals policy will tighten China and Russia\u2019s grip on America\u2019s declining future. 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