Many peoples who actually hunt for food respected the natural world.
Conversely, modern humans have indeed seen themselves as above the other animals, allowing greater and greater industrialisation of farming.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 12 Dec 2017, 15:48,
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I'm reading "A History of Ancient Britain" by Neil Oliver at the moment. It's well worth a read.
The bit where humans transition from the Mesolithic to the neolithic in Europe is fascinating. Some archaeologists think that farming spread east from persia very slowly across the world and headed west, as populations grew hunting become unsustainable and populations had to farm to support the number of mouths to feed and there was a lot of competition over land from the traditional hunters' territories getting pushed back by the bloomin forrins coming over from the continent with their new fangled ways.
The surprising bit is though that diets and health actually worsened in the short term because the farmed diet was a lot less varied.
I think we're seeing the inevitable consequence of population growth that the carbon footprint associated with modern meat farming isn't sustainable.
Eventually we'll conclude too late that there are just too many people on the planet.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 12 Dec 2017, 16:40,
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Many people have concluded that already ages ago.
I mean, it's simply obvious. Sure it can be shown with complicated science and mathematical projections, but really you just have to meet a few ordinary people and it should occur to you.
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THis is the sad history of the middle east
conflict between nomadic herdsmen and settled farmers. It really does go back that far.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 12 Dec 2017, 19:35,
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Intelligence takes little part in reproduction.
The rest I blame on 'marketing'.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 12 Dec 2017, 21:53,
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