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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
No, no. She meant that they clung to things once their loss was nigh. They began paying attention to the environment *after* the industrial revolution began, etc.
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Again, it's a very narrow view of the world presented. Environmentalism is not the exclusive domain of the west, or Europe or in fact agrarian societies.
Aboriginal and Amerindian societies had what amounts to environmental policies in their SUBSISTENCE economies. Respect for the land, care for the cycle, for the balance, living in harmony with their environment rather than changing it unrecognisably.
Certainly these cultures clung to the environment long before the west began threatening it. Their cultures were built around such concepts. [/QUOTE]Yorick, I think you missed the point here. The point is that societies tend to cling to a cultural characteristic MORE if it is threatened. The fact that native american societies and aboriginal societies had good environmental practicies DOES NOT CHANGE the fact that in Europe the environment only really became important once the industrial revolution threatened to change it. I mean, you cite something true about native societies here and in Oz, but that doesn't change the truth that was stated.