Comment on The fifth pocket
fishos@lemmy.world 1 day agoCalifornia wildfires have only been “managed” for the last ~200 years at most. How old do you think the country is? We’d be going back to the way things were a century or two ago, not tens of thousands of years. Tho yes, a lot of megafauna is gone, and we did it in that short of a time. Puts into perspective how damaging humans can be to the environment.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I’m talking about indigenous land management practices.
fishos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The indigenous allowed natural burns to happen. They were managing it much closer to correctly. They didn’t create the issues. Industrialization/colonization did most it and you can’t blame that on indigenous peoples.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
I’m not saying they created issues, but I am saying they also had a fairly intensive system of land management. So if we move to a system of little or no human intervention, that’s not a state that has existed for tens of thousands of years and we don’t know what that looks like. Could involve major ecosystem shifts, species extinctions, major fires, who knows.
fishos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well it’s a good thing we have scientists doing things like measuring carbon in layers of soil to tell us that no, the indigenous weren’t altering the planet like that and were allowing the natural fires to burn regularly.
Stop “guessing” and do some actual research on the subject. They literally tried to teach us about it when we colonized, but “white man so superior” didn’t listen. And this is coming from a white guy.
We know who caused the problems. Stop trying to shift this to the indigenous. There not the ones who built massive cities in fire areas and then refused to let any of the forrests there burn.