Every single culture that had the means and the opportunity to rape the land for profit has done it. The ones that didn’t simply couldn’t.
How did you come to this conclusion? From my perspective there is no way to demonstrate a culture had the means to exploit the land for profit unless they did it. I’d be interested in knowing if I missed something.
Possible counterpoints would be the existence of sustainable foraging practices and taboos around greed, or practices like potlatch. These exist in various forms around the world today.
Ethnicity is a tricky concept to apply here but I think you are getting at the concept of idealizing “primitive” cultures. I don’t think that’s what was going on in the OP. I think they are saying humanity has a choice, the choice that is being made is to allow these behaviors to continue.
How did you come to this conclusion? From my perspective there is no way to demonstrate a culture had the means to exploit the land for profit unless they did it. I’d be interested in knowing if I missed something.
Possible counterpoints would be the existence of sustainable foraging practices and taboos around greed, or practices like potlatch. These exist in various forms around the world today.
Ethnicity is a tricky concept to apply here but I think you are getting at the concept of idealizing “primitive” cultures. I don’t think that’s what was going on in the OP. I think they are saying humanity has a choice, the choice that is being made is to allow these behaviors to continue.
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