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Beavers building dams is the amazing natural world.

Humans building dams is a sin against the natural world.

[pixl97 → unsupp0rted]

It's almost like scale is a quality of its own.

Dropping a snowball on you might tick you off.

Dropping an avalanche on you, and you probably won't have much to say.

[ChatGTP → pixl97]

Very correct.

A world with co2 emissions from fire stick farming is a whole different game to what we’ve done in the last 100 years.

[llamaimperative → unsupp0rted]

If beavers got as good as we did, they’d be wrong too.

[ChatGTP → llamaimperative]

If beavers did what we’ve done, we’d exterminate them because it would be an inconvenience for us heh

[glhaynes → unsupp0rted]

Some of the most unreligious people I know are also the most bought-into the idea of a nature/humans dichotomy.

[goatlover → glhaynes]

What if you told them that indigenous people pre-colonization sometimes built dams, dikes and aqueducts, and made use of irrigation?

[glhaynes → goatlover]

A lot of those same people seem to treat indigenous people as outside of being touched by the "original sin" that the rest of us are.

[goatlover → glhaynes]

The original sin of farming, or hierarchy, or city dwelling. Problem is that the dividing line between our hunter-gatherer ancestors and civilization are murky and spread out over millennia, and across the planet in varying degrees.

[badpun → goatlover]

Indigenous people pre-colonization had in many cases pretty advanced civilizations going on, with decent-sized cities etc.

[ChatGTP → unsupp0rted]

Except your injecting all this into the conversation right ? I never said it’s “wrong” for anyone to build a dam. I’m saying I’d like to see a world without mega dams, is that ok ?

I blasphemed against modernity…

[sitkack → unsupp0rted]

We live in Mordor and have the ring.