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I think the argument is that native people have lived in that way for thousands of years and reached a state of equilibrium with nature. It is definitely more
by 7952 3y ago
I think the argument is that native people have lived in that way for thousands of years and reached a state of equilibrium with nature. It is definitely more complex than just looking at individual events. It is not better or worse necessarily, just more stable. When you introduce new technology or even disease that stability is lossed. Ad an example the death of native Americans to European disease reduced the amount of intentional burning. This may have substantially reduced global co2 levels.
- tbrownaw 3y ago> lived in that way for thousands of years and reached a state of equilibrium with nature Nature is not static. A small example would be Darwin's Finches shifting prevalence of break size from year to year. Or multi-year predator-prey boom and bust cycles. Or how bacteria learned to eat nylon in less than a century. Cultures are not static. For example the Inca and Aztec empires apparently only date back to the 12th and 13th centuries.
- therealdrag0 3y agoYes equilibrium after overhunting many large mammals and driving them extinct, horses, giant sloths, mammoths. Those indigenous sure know how to manage ecology!