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Traditional shout-out to reading Charles C. Mann's excellent "1491".
by sho_hn 3y ago
Traditional shout-out to reading Charles C. Mann's excellent "1491".
- elpakal 3y ago+1. Shout out to its follow up 1493 too.
- AndrewOMartin 3y agoRead this book if the following sounds interesting to you. The Amazon, before European settlement was not a huge virgin rainforest with scattered tribes living in harmony with nature. Instead it was a completely human agriculture dominated landscape with huge cities boasting populations larger than Paris but without the famine and shit in the streets. The forest we see now is not the state they lived in but is more like a post-apocalyptic landscape where the trees have taken over again and scattered pockets of survivors eke out an existence.