“The world is closing in on the few remaining people who live in such remote isolation as to seem not of this They dwell in crude thatched huts in forest depths and subsist by hunting and fishing and gathering plants and berries. They know nothing of television, the Internet or, it is safe to say, the Big Bang. But some have seen airplanes flying over, sometimes swooping low over their settlements.”

“The work of indigenous dispossession is about to be completed. The last great global land grab and indigenous asset stripping is happening as I write.”