in terms of life expectancy, you re telling me that when, you know, back in the late 60s and early 70s, when you really were going to these places in the amazon where people had barely met or set eyes upon an outsider like yourself, at the time, their life expectancy was as high as can be seen in the western world? yes, when i was with the yanomami, i remember being taken by an 80 year old man who said there was some honey that he wanted to collect, and he climbed this iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance to have their own land and their own culture, they re obviously healthier and better than we are and live longer. i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you
iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance to have their own land and their own culture, they re obviously healthier and better than we are and live longer. i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you were best friends with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the
in the field of health care, could enormously help these people? but those effects are all the result of them being having their land taken away and being made destitute. when left, when given their land and made able to look after their own affairs, that is not the case. they are. yes. in terms of life expectancy, you re telling me that when, you know, back in the late 60s and early 70s, when you really were going to these places in the amazon where people had barely met or set eyes upon an outsider like yourself, at the time, their life expectancy was as high as can be seen in the western world? yes, when i was with the yanomami, i remember being taken by an 80 year old man who said there was some honey that he wanted to collect, and he climbed this iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance to have their own land
expectancy was as high as can be seen in the western world? yes, when i was with the yanomami, i remember being taken by an 80 year old man who said there was some honey that he wanted to collect, and he climbed this iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance to have their own land and their own culture, they re obviously healthier and better than we are and live longer. i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you were best friends with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand
in which controlled and limited contact, particularly in the field of health care, could enormously help these people? but those effects are all the result of them being having their land taken away and being made destitute. when left, when given their land and made able to look after their own affairs, that is not the case. they are. yes. in terms of life expectancy, you re telling me that when, you know, back in the late 60s and early 70s, when you really were going to these places in the amazon where people had barely met or set eyes upon an outsider like yourself, at the time, their life expectancy was as high as can be seen in the western world? yes, when i was with the yanomami, i remember being taken by an 80 year old man who said there was some honey that he wanted to collect, and he climbed this iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance