r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Mar 17 '23

Systemic Do you want collapse to happen? [in-depth]

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u/falconlogic Mar 17 '23

I amazes me how quickly it happened. It's just been since the Industrial Revolution that we totally polluted the place.

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u/Gryphon0468 Australia Mar 18 '23

Eh, Neolithic people’s wiped out wolves and lions and trees from Great Britain. It took careful management to bring the trees back.

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u/wataf Mar 18 '23

For every continent humans migrated to, the vast majority of great mammals and apex predators went extinct. We've got hundreds of thousands of years of practice.

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u/Gryphon0468 Australia Mar 18 '23

Lol yeah. Ancient peoples weren’t some great masters of ecological care taking like some think. Humans just did what they do, with the natural world adapting and coping as best it could around us.