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Beavers building dams is the amazing natural world. Humans building dams is a sin against the natural world.
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
Beavers building dams is the amazing natural world.
Humans building dams is a sin against the natural world.
- sitkack 3y agoWe live in Mordor and have the ring.
- glhaynes 3y agoSome of the most unreligious people I know are also the most bought-into the idea of a nature/humans dichotomy.
- goatlover 3y agoWhat if you told them that indigenous people pre-colonization sometimes built dams, dikes and aqueducts, and made use of irrigation?
- badpun 3y agoIndigenous people pre-colonization had in many cases pretty advanced civilizations going on, with decent-sized cities etc.
- glhaynes 3y agoA lot of those same people seem to treat indigenous people as outside of being touched by the "original sin" that the rest of us are.
- goatlover 3y agoThe original sin of farming, or hierarchy, or city dwelling. Problem is that the dividing line between our hunter-gatherer ancestors and civilization are murky and spread out over millennia, and across the planet in varying degrees.
- ethanbond 3y agoIf beavers got as good as we did, they’d be wrong too.
- ChatGTP 3y agoIf beavers did what we’ve done, we’d exterminate them because it would be an inconvenience for us heh
- pixl97 3y agoIt's almost like scale is a quality of its own. Dropping a snowball on you might tick you off. Dropping an avalanche on you, and you probably won't have much to say.
- ChatGTP 3y agoVery correct. A world with co2 emissions from fire stick farming is a whole different game to what we’ve done in the last 100 years.
- ChatGTP 3y agoExcept your injecting all this into the conversation right ? I never said it’s “wrong” for anyone to build a dam. I’m saying I’d like to see a world without mega dams, is that ok ? I blasphemed against modernity…