Message from Immigrants and Plants

By John Perkins

As I prepare for my August Omega workshop Sacred Plants: Touching the Jaguar and trips that I guide where participants learn from indigenous shamans in Latin America, I think about the messages that nature and the immigrants attempting to enter the US and Europe offer.

Our first reaction to environmental problems and those associated with immigrants often is to cast blame:

Fossil fuels, mining, food production, etc. are destroying the environment;

Corruption and brutali...