Primitive man not so in harmony with the Earth

Yup they did ruinb thier invirment and we have tried to pick it up on different things but when its a desert not much ya can do if it dont rain! Or Snow in the mopiuntains that furnishs the water that you use.

i was just watching something on nazca yesterday..they said the white lines had a glassy substance to them.. i think mankind in general is a destructive beast. for every bunch that is careful,there's always people who do the old "slash and burn" mentality.nothing like screwing over your future generations.

That's quite right elic. In fact there are a lot of examples of civilisations collapsing because of environmental destruction which in most cases caused the failure of the agricultural base on which the civilisation depended depended. Many such examples are given in a book that I have called "The Collapse of Complex Societies." If you can get hold of a copy, I'm sure that you will find it interesting particularly in it's implications for our own oil based civilisation. The book is an academic study of the reasons for the collapse of civilisations and it's to detailed to summarise here. However, some of the main reasons given where depletion of a vital resourse, environmental destruction resulting in the collapse of the agricultural infrastructure, and population increases to a unsustainable level. And of course, combinations of these and other events. And going right back to Paleolithinc times, people have speculated that intensive hunting of the mammoth by prehistoric man was a contributory factor in the extinction of that animal. That's just speculation though.

That is a very good point. They did not, however, know better than to trash their home. We do know better than to use our habitat for our rubbish dump. Therefore we should do better. Doing better can also be rather profitable if we do it right. * Animal poo can produce clean energy and fertilize crops. So can vegetable waste matter. Over very long term it can produce oil. The sun can create energy rather than just shine on us. * We just have to get our rears into the right gear.

i would have to agree with you. i have read a few books on the ancient civilizations and it would seem that it was primitive man against the earth not in harmony with.

Humans will always try to manipulate their environment to their own needs instead of adapting. It's a built in conceit that we all have, thinking we are the rulers of the world. Fortunately, nature heals quickly and adapts. There are so many of us now, though, that we can help it heal more quickly if we choose to, without compromising our quality of life much. I don't agree with the whole global warming hooey and I think climate change (the more correct name for GW) is natural and cyclical but I agree we should do anything we can to protect the quality of our earth and everything that lives on it.

I think human beings like to rewrite history.. and also like to see the world through their own glasses, but I think with all things so huge these days, we should see things in reality or we will bring about future things for ourselves we will not be happy with. I also think public thought and ideas are shaped, but are the ones doing the shaping seeing things in reality or seeing what works for their cause and agenda?

Thanks for the post, people are people whether primitive or not, and they tend to do stuff to the point it is not working any more or it ruins their surroundings.

Yep, humans have been humans since humans first appeared. Indian tribes warred with and enslaved each other over territory, land and resources. I wanted to actually chime in on another part of your post though, the Nazca lines. It is now believed they were in fact navigatory markings....but not for aliens, for them. Yep, you heard right, for them. It was apparently dicsovered these ancient folks had experimented with and used early versions of hot air ballons. Not exactly UFO tech, but still fasinating non the less.

hi ElicBxn You are so right,all down through the ages different people have abused and misused the earth, and yet we romanticize these people and make claims about them that are not really true. I also had read about the Easter Islanders ruining their' own environment. It is so easy to over romanticize something if you do not really know the truth.

There's also the theory that the large mammals disappeared from North America due to over hunting, that the Sahara desert spreading is largely due to human activity, probably many other examples too.

Mankind will be mankind, no matter WHAT century they're from. Doesn't it always seem to be our destiny to destroy ourselves in some way or another? We are what we are, even if we find out too late! cdrxo

From what I have heard form documentries on the subject, primitive peoples were more resourful than momdern man thinks. some say that the Mayans and others had help from aliens as proposed by Von Diniken. However primiteve curtures were inventive and resousuful in using what they had. they knew how to make use of what they had at the time and devoted plenty of time and energy for there efforts. I realy do not think that e.t. ever entered the picture.

I fear men are not in harmony with the Earth, whether that was primitive or not,it's just humankind that is not in harmony. Kinda agree with you, though I'd suggest that you divide between paleolithic and neolithic, I guess both cultures you mentioned are neolithics and then very much more similar to us than the paleolithic cultures where. Search up!

Thanks for the link.