RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 10, 2024 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2024 at 3:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Yes, we, as in Homo sapiens, probably destroyed the Ice Age megafauna in north ad south america. But the descendants of those Ice Age hunters created large, entirely man made ecosystems in the north east, mississippi valley and prarie states, as well as in central america and amazon that was evidently stable over period of several thousand years.
The artificial restoration of the ice age megafauna is highly unlikely to be compatible with our economy and technological civilization. but the sort of artificial, managed, and evidently sustainable ecosystems that the Native Americans created probably gives an better impression of what effectively managed sustainable ecosystem look like.
one of the things popular image of post-ice age but pre-columbia native american culture misses is just how sustained, massive and far reaching their purposed intervention in ecosystem were. the entire north american prairie is a artificial creation of the indians. without their several thousand years of intensive land management through systematic annual burning, much of american prairies would have been forested woodland. The same also applies to the vast Amazon forest in South America. The Amazon forest is by no means a primitive forest. The mixture of tree species in the Amazon is also largely an artifact of Indian land management over thousands of years. Even today the Amazon forest is still largely the artifact of several thousand years of Native American species selection and planting.
The artificial restoration of the ice age megafauna is highly unlikely to be compatible with our economy and technological civilization. but the sort of artificial, managed, and evidently sustainable ecosystems that the Native Americans created probably gives an better impression of what effectively managed sustainable ecosystem look like.
one of the things popular image of post-ice age but pre-columbia native american culture misses is just how sustained, massive and far reaching their purposed intervention in ecosystem were. the entire north american prairie is a artificial creation of the indians. without their several thousand years of intensive land management through systematic annual burning, much of american prairies would have been forested woodland. The same also applies to the vast Amazon forest in South America. The Amazon forest is by no means a primitive forest. The mixture of tree species in the Amazon is also largely an artifact of Indian land management over thousands of years. Even today the Amazon forest is still largely the artifact of several thousand years of Native American species selection and planting.
