[decimon]

Hug a tree, slay a virgin ping.

[Clock King]

BFD. Most ancient people knew how to manage their resources so they didn’t starve or run out of raw materials. The successful ones at least.

[Army Air Corps]

Me oh Maya...

[VeniVidiVici]

This is true. The Mayan were far in advance of our current state when it comes to conservation.

Take this glyph for example:

It says -

"When it's yellow, let it mellow.
When it's brown, flush it down."

[FlorianG]

I’m calling BS on this one. I seriously doubt they would have had enough people to wipe out an entire forest—much less even care about replentishing it.

Who comes up with this nonsense?
Tree-Nazi’s with agenda’s?

[Bon mots]

I think whales and seals did this first though.
Followed by Mayas, then Incas, Aztecs, Egyptians, Zulu...
Then homosexuals, then feminists.
Then people of color.
Then Eskimoes and Native Americans.

Then the white man came and killed them all and raped their children and ate their food, stole their resources and poisoned mother earth. Now honkeywhiteycrackers are warming the whole globe with global warming.

[Little Bill]

ping

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Amazing how the tree huggers make up a story to fit their agenda. Perhaps they got all that information from the ancient mayan text “earth in the balance”? Perhaps they picked up snippets of early mayan “cap and trade” plans?
In any event, even precursory examination of the varied terrain that the mayan people inhabited would rule out man made “global warming” as the cause of their extinction.
Perhaps they did exceed the carrying capacity of their habitat, but that wouldn't explain why they didn't move or expand. A much more likely conclusion is that the DemonRAT politicians gained control and taxed them to death.

[Bon mots]

B.S.

The Mayas simply did not have the technology.

Did someone ignore the fact that essentially the entire continents of North and South America were essentially STONE AGE civilizations without steel, without even the WHEEL and were still using pre-historic (by European Standards) construction methods (no keystone)... for them to build large buildings required megalithic stone as they did not yet invent the keystone.

They simply did not have the technology to cut up the fast growing MesoAmerican rainforests fast enough. They also had no need for firewood such as European civilizations as they did not practice animal husbandry and had virtually no animals when compared to Europe, Asia and Africa.

Total BS.

[Bon mots]

Should clarify:

Forests were not much of a resource for Mayas, so it was ignored. Sort of like a gas station to a man without a car.

Many of Europe’s forests were cut for firewood. Europeans had also developed fine woodworking skills using STEEL saws and tools. The Mayas did not have woodcrafting skills that could be used for architecture as they were essentially stoneage. They did not have iron or steel.

The Mayas did not need to burn firewood to heat their homes. They lived in Mexico where it is warm.
They did not need to cook much food as they did not practice animal husbandry and no stock animals. No chickens, no cattle... nothing. The only Pre-Columbian American civilization that domesticated animals in any numbers were the Peruvians (llamas).

They had no wheels.
They had no iron or steel.
They had no way to cut and process lumber.
They had no need to cook meat except for what was hunted.
They had no need for wood as a fuel or for heating.
The forests were simply not a hugely useful resource.

Stupid academics putting their Socialist/Green/Vegan ideas first and setting the science up to follow their pre-conceived notions.

[freedomfiter2]

Yeah, it was called “stone axes”.

[SunkenCiv]

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[BenLurkin]

“Their deliberate conservation practices can be observed in the wood they used for construction and this observation is reinforced by the pollen record.”