The fate of Micronesia is the fate of Sustainable Humanity.
Micronesia is last domino in the quest to globalize the Earth into
a singular monoculture. It is the region least affected by the
increasingly global culture of conspicuous consumption and
individualistic materialism. Micronesia is at a crossroads, as is
the human race. If the last region on earth in which, among the
majority of the population, communal living based on
interconnectedness, extended families, shared resources, non-linear
thinking, and a sustainable relationship with the natural
environment is the norm is allowed to be destroyed, the future of
humanity is truly in jeopardy. When imagination of indigenous youth
and the viability of sustainable living are allowed to die, so does
hope for the entire human race. Micronesia is one of the last
corners on earth where people, on the whole, still pattern life in
humane and interdependent arrangements built on sustaining,
life-supporting values, in short, where people still mostly
function as people. This resilience, perhaps, is an offering of
beauty - its contribution to the world. This book is a series of
essays describing the present day realities of the U.S.-Micronesia
relationship through the eyes of the folk on the ground, being
disappeared. Both elders and youth tell of the continuing harm of
the U.S. colonial project in Micronesia, revealing how that project
continues to starve the imaginations of entire peoples. Made up of
more than 2,000 islands and atolls in three major archipelagos, the
Carolines, the Marshalls, and the Marianas, Micronesia was known
from the last World War until the 1970s as the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands. All of it, the Republic ofthe Marshall Islands
(RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of
Palau (Belau), and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(CNMI), less Guam, which was cut from the rest after the
Spanish-American war and lumped with the other 1898 Unfortunates:
the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. While the world looks away,
this region of the planet is facing down death. Mostly losing.
Current U.S. militarist and corporate plans for the region now
threaten to destroy the life-affirming values that bind and sustain
these ancient civilizations by deepening dispossession of the
people.
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