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> why is biodiversity important? Healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters. > Many cultures have merged in history to be
by raytracer 10y ago
> why is biodiversity important?
Healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters.
> Many cultures have merged in history to become nations we see today, but nobody misses the oh-so-glory days of a specific Northern German tribe in BC 500.
I assume certain indigenous people don't appreciate being conquered.
> I wonder if experiential diversity has increased.
Why do you suppose experiential diversity has increased?
- jonathankoren 10y ago> I assume certain indigenous people don't appreciate being conquered. Who mourns for the visigoths? No one. As for contemporary conquered indigenous peoples, they're dying or acculturating out. Today, too many are just fetishized "nobel savages" selling tourists crappy silver and turquoise trinkets and velvet paintings of moonlit wolves and men in feathered headdresses in between hands of blackjack.