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Originally posted by John D Harris:
Yorick I don't know about the Aborignal societies of downunder, but you might want to check out the history of the Anistazy(sp?) Indians(anceistors of most of the SW Indians) of the SW USA they destroyed their enviroment(over farming), and eventually sunk to the level of canabilism. Check out the Mississippian (mound builders) they eventually it is believed sank into civil war, and any rate they ceased to exsist. Sorry Yorick but there is NO way you can sell me the bill of goods about the Indians being the most wonderful and perfect people that ever walked the face of the earth. Don't even try this they only killed what they could eat crap. They killed what they could get their hands on. Throughout the west there are archiology digs at many sites where the most eviromental friendly people that ever walked the face of the earth, ran entire herds of buffalo off cliffs and then took what they could carry, and left the rest to ROT.
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Subsistence cultures. Not just Amerindian. Subsistence involves a respect for the continued balance of the environment, rather than unchecked growth as found in agrarian city cultures.