The Truth Behind Avatar

I watched Avatar for the third time tonight and unfortunately, yet again, was reminded of the truth behind the story. I love the movie, in my opinion it's one of the best, most thought out stories in a really long time and it's different not your typical show. But it has a lot of unfortunate truths to it and that is both upsetting and scary.
The first time you see the movie, the most obvious issue is that the people there are different. They are much larger then human beings and live "savagely" as we would consider it. They live their lives connected to nature in a way humans do not understand, much like the Native Americans did here before Europeans came to settle in America. Anyway, being that they are different, the humans on the planet do not understand the way they work and they consider them savages, they feel that they need to teach them the American ideals that they live by: teach them English and give them medicine and roads. Things that they do not want but we think that they would want.
Even today, in this world, if you are different you are discriminated against from the beginning. It's 2010 and yet if you are a woman, gay, African American, Asian, Jew, Muslim, or anything different, you are made fun of for what you look like, or how you act, or what you believe in. The Native Americans, when the Europeans came to America were living what was considered a "savage" lifestyle. They wore animal skins and lived in tribes. Their primary jobs were to hunt and fish. They had their own languages and their own religions and their own lifestyles. They believed and used nature, but not in the same way as Europeans who abused the land, they took what they needed and in a way thanked the land, much like the Na'vi of Avatar. But to the Europeans, this way of life did not work, they needed structure, government, Christianity, European languages, and an assortment of things from the Western World. They were "uncivilized" and according to the Europeans could not take care of themselves. They were "savages" and yet they were in a more perfect world.
In the movie Avatar, Jake's character asks Eywa, the Na'vi god, to look into Grace's memories and see the destroyed world of Earth. To see that they have destroyed their planet and plan to do the same there. And that is the truth, we have begun to destroy the planet and the effects of our actions can already be seen. Sure there are efforts to help stop all of the problems that come with the pollution among other things slowly killing our planet, but we can't fix what we have already destroyed. Things aren't getting better either, sure people can recycle and use public transportation and find better fuel sources but those aren't the only problems we cause. We love material things, and don't get me wrong there are certain things that I feel I can not live without, but the truth of the matter is I can and so can we. Though it's much too late to make a change that drastic. People are too dependent on technology and money and power to try to change the way we live.
It's ironic because the Native Americans were considered savages, yet we are the ones that are destroying the Earth, we are the ones who fight wars over money and power and religion, we are the ones who can't live without an electronic device because we wouldn't know what to do. They were the ones that had it right all along and we are the ones that came and messed it all up and the repercussions of our actions will continue on into the future until the end of this Earth. But that's just my opinion and after seeing Avatar I know that if that ever really happened, us finding some other planet with alien life forms somewhat like ourselves, we would do exactly what was done, just for the money and the power that comes with the destruction of their planet and that is sad. That is truly depressing.