Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?
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“First contacts” are always exciting, but they rarely go smoothly: In Star Trek, the crew of the starship Enterprise continually encounters new civilizations that want to attack, assimilate, or worship it. And in reality, most first contacts have been downright disastrous: when European explorers came to the Americas, they brought novel diseases, guns, and colonialism with them, and ended up killing over 50 million Native Americans, steamrolling their cultures, and stealing their land. Today, we’re nearing the end of first contacts on Earth, where dense tropical rainforests are home to the last hundred or so groups of isolated peoples. The remote areas where isolated groups live are increasingly trafficked by drug runners, exploited by logging an...
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“First contacts” are always exciting, but they rarely go smoothly: In Star Trek, the crew of the starship Enterprise continually encounters new civilizations that want to attack, assimilate, or worship it. And in reality, most first contacts have been downright disastrous: when European explorers came to the Americas, they brought novel diseases, guns, and colonialism with them, and ended up killing over 50 million Native Americans, steamrolling their cultures, and stealing their land. Today, we’re nearing the end of first contacts on Earth, where dense tropical rainforests are home to the last hundred or so groups of isolated peoples. The remote areas where isolated groups live are increasingly trafficked by drug runners, exploited by logging an...
