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[โ€“] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To add to your point, in those times nature was seen as equal to humanity and sustainability was therefore paramount. This is very different from our modern worldview of sustainability, which has us currently marching towards our own extinction.

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 9 points 4 weeks ago

To add to your point, in those times nature was seen as equal to humanity and sustainability was therefore paramount.

You're kidding, right? Hunter-gatherer societies regularly radically altered the environment and drove native species to extinction through overhunting. This idea of an ideological proto-environmentalist view is largely constructed in response to hunter-gatherers being pushed off of land by more efficiently unsustainable societies; not because hunter-gatherers have an inherent ideological or spiritual disinclination towards altering the environment.