english: Wherever you look around the world, you discover that these are not cultures destined to fade away; these are dynamic living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces that are beyond their capacity to adapt to: whether it's the egregious deforestation in the homeland of the Penan -- a nomadic people from Southeast Asia, from Sarawak -- a people who lived free in the forest until a generation ago, and now have all been reduced to servitude and prostitution on the banks of the rivers, where you can see the river itself is soiled with the silt that seems to be carrying half of Borneo away to the South China Sea, where the Japanese freighters hang light in the horizon ready to fill their holds with raw logs ripped from the forest -- or, in the case of the Yanomami, it's the disease entities that have come in, in the wake of the discovery of gold.
non_english: Gde god da pogledate po svetu, otkrićete da sudbina ovih kultura nije da nestanu; to su ljudi koji vode dinamičan život, ljudi čije je postojanje ugroženo poznatim silama koje su van njihove moći prilagođavanja: bilo da je u pitanju uništenje šuma u zemlji Penana, nomadski narod sa jugoistoka Afrike, iz Saravaka, narod koji je slobodno živeo u šumama samo do pre jedne generacije, a sada je u potpunosti sveden na ropstvo i prostituciju na obalama reka, gde možete videti da je i sama reka zagađena muljem koji izgleda kao da odnosi pola Bornea do Južnog kineskog mora, gde japanski teretni brodovi čekaju sa svetlima uprtim u horizont da napune svoje nosače sirovim stablima iščupanim iz šume -- ili, u slučaju Janomama, to su bolesti koje su se pojavile, u periodu zlatne groznice.