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.
Stop right there, they have exactly zero point
Animals, are hunter gatherers, period
Take the squirrel take the wolves
Now you're telling me, the animal "kingdom", is depleting the planet? You're telling me that natural cycles are bad to manage the environment?
Since when?
Never, they form the most virtuous cycle known to man, when it comes to "sustainability"
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Hunter gatherers didn't build hostpitals and universities and shit
They ride horses, at best, and live in tents or mud huts, at best
Of course they deplete at one area, but then they move on, and the vegetables and animals in the area grow/come back.
I mean if hunter gatherers were ever a problem for the environment.. Then the whole animal kingdom is one too
Which is evidently a completely bankrupt concept
This piece in the OP is only there to promote "unabatted liberalism, trust the plan, plunder the planet all you want, all hail capitalism free market and shit, we got everything right let's continue"
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