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> It's amazing to think of what nature provides Especially if the European first contact with their diseases kill off almost all the native population of human
by drewcoo 4y ago
> It's amazing to think of what nature provides
Especially if the European first contact with their diseases kill off almost all the native population of humans, allowing "nature" to recover from all the human foibles for sometimes 500 years before we were there and recording information (again).
The amount of bison (and yes, pronghorns) killed for the railroads was ridiculous.
No, people did not "consume" all of them. Most were left to rot, and pushed off rail lines if needed. This is not some kind of retroactive conspiracy theory. We killed them willy-nilly. Because we're human.
- katbyte 4y agoAlso on purpose to remove a food source from native Americans https://youtu.be/zqXwiljEKVM https://youtu.be/zqXwiljEKVM (talks about buffalo but same deal)
- moloch-hai 4y agoNot because we are human. Because we are invaders displacing natives. It was policy to shoot bison from trains and leave them to rot, to depopulate the plains. It worked.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoNative Americans didn’t kill them so willy-nilly and are also humans, so I wouldn’t necessarily accept this as human nature