The post said that the o2 change, wouldnt have any negative impact on the natives. Therefore it is not being done in disregard to the natives. If this wasn't noteworthy that it wouldnt impact the native health, then it wouldnt been mention. Bring up the native health means that it warrants attention.
True - but changing the atmospheric concentration
without agreement from the native race is at best insensitive, and at worst shows a callous disregard for the natives.
If
I was a native, I would be
very concerned by this - as it shows on one hand a lack of respect/consideration for the natives, as well as a long term plan by the US (afterall, the US wouldn't be doing this unless they had long term plans for the planet).
There no reason for the US post to hide information from us the Readers, they're done from the US prospective, if the troopers were an invasion force, then they would have been sent as an invasion force. They were sent down there as security force, therefore they're a security force. There no reason to go to war with the natives. They have ideas of sovereignty, and treaties. Whatever they find valuable would be trivial for the US to procure, so they can just buy all the mining rights without it involving force. Especially since the mineral that the US are mining, have no use to the natives.
I both agree and disagree.
You are right, in that as readers we are made aware of things that would not be otherwise known.
I disagree with your last sentence though - that just because the natives
can't mine, they have no interest in the minerals. If that were true, then property owners in our current world wouldn't be charging so much for mining rights from the mining companies. (After all, the
farmers aren't interested in mining - but they
are interested in the money the mining firms are willing to pay.) I would expect that the same would be true for the natives of Eben......