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>a hunter gatherer "living in harmony with nature" actually does orders of magnitude more ecological damage per human than industrialized society. I'm not sure

>a hunter gatherer "living in harmony with nature" actually does orders of magnitude more ecological damage per human than industrialized society. I'm not sure how this is true. Perhaps you can persuade me? A one acre garden is not a "hobby" in my opinion. The amount of work involved in cultivating an entire acre is immense. As well, a personal garden is unlikely to be a monoculture which is even worse ecologically in my opinion than a loss of efficiency. Plus there's all that Round-up...

freeflight 9y ago
>I'm not sure how this is true. Perhaps you can persuade me? This could actually apply to the hunter&gatherer because those didn't care much about sustainability. When a region was picked/hunted empty they simply moved to a new region, few enough of us around back then so this actually worked and regions had time to recover. Now imagine nearly 7 billion humans living the same way: Gathering/hunting everything in their closest region until most of it is gone just to move on to a new region, no permaculture at all. It wouldn't take long before there wouldn't be anything left to hunt or gather. >A one acre garden is not a "hobby" in my opinion. The amount of work involved in cultivating an entire acre is immense. Not every one-acre garden is actually cultivated, that's how some people are able to have them as a hobby ;)