Lithium exploitation: Indigenous communities on alert in Argentina 

Northern Argentina, not Patagonia.

Do you have an idea just how much water lithium extraction requires? It that area of Argentina water is a scarce resource.

Yeap, they are.

No These are different peoples, and they inhabited the land first before occupying their land

@@juanes1235 no These are different peoples, and they inhabited the land first before occupying their land

China never oppressed any country or people like imperial Europeans(France)

NEVER

What about lithium Americas in Thacker Pass it’s Chinese and Canadian owned and that’s ok ?

It's called trading, all they what is their land untouched, usually business dont takes over the land is going to make the air worse business don't care what happens to land. All they care about is profit and non of the profits from the land will go to the people. It like find gold in your backyard, and another govermen takes that from you.

So disrespectful

Into what? Into degeneracy, like us in the western world?

They really do. These resources will be exploited regardless of what they want or think. They should try to get a cut of the profits for themselves.

@@euroguy86 Yes, but they are up against thieves from the north. Bolivia's lithium was stolen by getting rid of Evo Morales in a coup, installing an acting president, getting her to approve US lithium extraction. The US attempted to pressure Morales into signing, but he said that Bolivia would develop the resource itself. Well, that was the end of his presidency.

@@zico739 First Nations groups in Canada have tried to forge deals to get a cut of the profits for themselves. They end up cheated with their culture destroyed. Big White Man wants it all. No sharing.

People in the west often seem to think that they have the economic solutions to everything. If it is not indigenous peoples' way, does this make it automatically wrong? Their way has been their way for tens of thousands of years (human remains 40,000 years old found in S. America), and we expect them to suddenly adopt our destructive capitalistic ways that could only result in their losing everything and gaining but a pittance in return? It is only necessary to look at what we have done and continue to do to North American Indians and Eskimos to see what their fate would be. It is not they who need to change, but us. If we left them alone and stopped attempting to pirate and exploit their natural resources on their ancestral lands, they could carry on following their traditional way of life unmolested. We have a lot to learn from indigenous peoples, and not the other way around. Civilisations always follow the same trajectory from incipient to flowering, to flourishing, and on to degeneracy and decline. The western way is already very degenerate and it is now in social, economic and ecological decline. Would you wish that they evolve into what we have become?