• orrk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    not really, civilization for a long time was perfectly fine living alongside nature. this problem is only really become a thing since the later industrial revolution

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      That’s bollocks. Humans have been clear-cutting land, burning fields and forests to enable agriculture, and hunting species to extinction since we came down from the trees, to say nothing of shitting in every body of water we lived near. The industrial revolution only made it tip the scales into an existential threat to our continued way of life.

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        1 year ago

        Burning fields and forests is called back burning . It’s a practice that is saving the forest. If you don’t, the burning forests gets out of hand and all is lost. Just ask Australia circa 2019 when the PM refused to do the needed.

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            1 year ago

            Calm down. you either clearly cannot understand the differences or refuse to understand the differences of back burning and deforestation. And until you do you should stop speaking on the subject of ‘what is good for the world’ cuz clearly you are doing it in a very bad actor/sensationalist way.

            • SCB@lemmy.world
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              burning fields and forests is called back burning

              Not always. Sometimes it’s deforestation. Most often throughout human history, it’s been deforestation

              You’re talking nonsense man