Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said Tuesday that the harmful effects of climate change being felt today around the world would not be as bad if early colonizers had adopted the environmental practices of the indigenous tribes they eventually supplanted.  "Many of the challenges we face today – a warming planet, the loss of habitat and wildlife, dying coral reefs – these could have been lessened or completely avoided – if early colonists had valued the stewardship practices and environmental wisdom that tribes have cultivated over thousands of years," Haaland said in her prepared remarks in Perth, Australia. Haaland appeared to be talking about both the situation in America and Australia, as well as other countries that were colonized over the last several hundred years. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-crisis-avoided-colonists-adopted-indigenous-lifestyle-top-biden-official