pfffffffff
What an obvious load of shit, I don't even need to click on it to destroy that position entirely
"And the average death toll of medieval wars, is much higher than the average death toll of post industrialization era wars!"
It is a stretch to argue, as increase in population causes more impact.The point they make has some validity though.
Hunter-gathers didn't put back into the environment, they depleted resources then moved on. Post agriculture people started maintaining their land as well as the plants and animals.
It was a switch from being a strictly consuming animal to one that focuses on producing.
Puting on par industrial pollution on a mass scale with defecating hunter gatherers is laughable to begin with. And from that point concluding idustrialization saved the environment from hunter gahterers is an intellectual joke
Even if they shitted all together at the same place at the same time for a century they couldn't achieve the level of pollution industrialized china or india are reaching in one year alone
That's why its a difficult opinion to argue but their point has nothing to do with pollution as much as resource management.
Hunter-Gathers collect and hunt all they can with no thought of sustainability. This completely depletes the resources of an area.
Localizing food supply, which your group produces year and year again, means you aren't hunting animals to extinction (mammoths, giant sloths) or over foraging and wiping out plant populations.
Humans got to good at being hunter-gathers and needed to change strategy into something more sustainable.
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