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> We don't even know what we're missing. The plants that are being neglected aren't unknown, they are just not as useful > Jfc. Plants aren't just for food.
by hyperhopper 3y ago
> We don't even know what we're missing.
The plants that are being neglected aren't unknown, they are just not as useful
> Jfc. Plants aren't just for food.
Nobody said they were. Stop inventing strawman arguments
> indigenous people dwindle from the planet, their knowledge of useful plants disappears and their potential becomes lost on us.
Source required. What important plant knowledge is being lost?
- numtel 3y agoWe literally do not know what we lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide When rubber industrialists wiped out the people living in the area, those that remained lost generational knowledge. Ethnobotanists like Shultes explored the Amazon afterwards. There's even a movie made on the subject of exploring the Amazon for medicines with Sean Connery, Medicine Man. Also, the more recent Embrace of the Serpent.
- alexey-salmin 3y agoWhen you personally are sick do you go to a doctor or to a shaman?