[C19fan]

The whole idea of the Native people of the Americas living in harmony with nature until the Europeans came is pure bunk. A lot of research has come out of how native people transformed the ecology of the Americas. I read about how the Amazons were once home to millions of people. Some believe it was mosquitoes that carried malaria being brought across the Atlantic from Europe and Africa that wiped out this Amazon based culture/civilization.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This theory was the subject of a book some years ago.
I think it was titled “1491.”

[arthurus]

1491-short review and

The book.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Then, according to the enviro-nazis, we should do everything in our power to return it to its previous condition.

[P.O.E.]

I seem to vaguely remember some article years ago about planes detecting straight-lined formations under the jungle. I’ll have to see if I can find it.

[headstamp 2]

But according to PBS the ARF is at least eleventy billion years old.

[GreyFriar]

Obviously “we” can blame the Christian God for creating man in his envrionmental destroying image. Or so the Gaia worshipers will claim...which will be saying that the God they don’t believe in actually created the earth.

And I as a Christian am not in agreement with my sarcastic words I’m putting in the mouth of honest Gaia worshipers, who probably believe what I’m saying.

[BitWielder1]

The notion of "preserving" something that is dynamic and ever changing in its nature is problematic indeed.
Rivers turn into swamps, then wetlands, meadows and forests while the river took some other path and the cycle repeats elsewhere.
When humans are part of the process it becomes even more of a problem for enviros.
The ecology of pastures for example are heavily dependent on the farmer doing his thing every year.
If you try to freeze it in time by stopping all human activity it becomes something else.

[Red Badger]

A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-first-
americans-links-amazon-indigenous-australians-180955976/?no-ist

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!...................

[Paladin2]

Agenda 21 was implemented way before its current incarnation.

May the piranha consume the UN.

[JoeProBono]

[cripplecreek]

The fact that there were more people there in the past doesn’t equate to a man made forest.

The thin infertile forest soil doesn’t lend itself to large scale farming very well. Its why the natives practice slash and burn farming. The 6 inches of fertile topsoil is worn out in a few years so they let the forest reclaim the land and move on to clear more land.

Obviously they can farm on a large scale today but its only due to modern farming methods that include constant soil maintenance. Its like trying to farm in southern California without irrigation.

[zek157]

The book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus discusses this extensively.

[TalonDJ]

Didn’t you read 1491?

[jim_trent]

I read the book “1491” also. I looked all through the book for some proof, but did not find any. I found only speculation. One of the speculations was that the new world was more populated than the old.

If so, how come every time they put a shovel in the ground to build something in Europe, they find remains. That is NOT the case in the new world. In fact, the remains of native americans are relatively rare.

The entire chapter speculating on the 94% death rate for diseases was TOTALLY without any kind of proof. There has never been a plague that kills that high a percentage in the past (that has been documented). The reason the book stopped at 94% was because going higher was even more unrealistic.

1491 was a total waste of time.

[blam]

An origin of new world agriculture in coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP)

Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt (Farming 11K Years Ago In South America)

[dfwgator]

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Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
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You’ve never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes ‘cos caring sells
All you activists can go ...k yourselves.

Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
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Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
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Each year, the Rainforest is responsible for over three thousand deaths from accidents, attacks or illnesses.

There are over seven hundred things in the Rainforest that cause cancer.

Join the fight now and help stop the Rainforest before it’s too late.

-Getting Gay With Kids (South Park)