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.
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.
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.
I’m sorry but you’re just totally ignorant on what you are talking about. I recommend reading Tending the Wild by anthropologist M Kat Anderson to educate yourself.
fishos@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry but you’re just totally ignorant on what you are talking about. I recommend reading Tending the Wild by anthropologist M Kat Anderson to educate yourself.