Pscyho-anthropologist, writer and documentary film maker Lawrence Blair shares his views on three decades of development in Indonesia....
"We don't all think and see the world in the same way," Blair says of how Asians, particularly in tribal societies, view the unseen world as equally real, whereas people in the West often only really believe in what they can touch and see and measure. Environmental and cultural pressures are bearing down upon such societies.
"I have a feeling we might have been quite lucky over the last 150 or 200 years because we have lived - all of us, even the whole of civilization - in a very narrow wave band of sustainability in an otherwise very wild surface of the planet.
"We may be weaving our way into another big physical, environmental, geophysical disruption ."
But, as he says, "it depends on how big a view you take of it".
"In the short term, I don't think it's going to get better. In the long term," says Blair with a casual lilt in his voice, "everything's working out just fine."
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