Misplaced & Displaced

Monoculture plantation forests displace and replace the stands of native species that once dominated the landscapes of New Zealand and Australia, where grew I up and where I live.
Like the plantation forests that distort the ecologies of their environments, the monoculture of westernisation has distorted and displaced the rich and diverse cultures that existed before them.
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Plantation forests not only distort the physical environment they distort people’s connection to the Land. Removing naturally established ecologies degrades the land in the minds of people, who lose respect and concern for these places, seeing them as good for nothing but dumping inconvenient belongings.