• orrk@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      not really, civilization for a long time was perfectly fine living alongside nature. this problem is only really become a thing since the later industrial revolution

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        That’s bollocks. Humans have been clear-cutting land, burning fields and forests to enable agriculture, and hunting species to extinction since we came down from the trees, to say nothing of shitting in every body of water we lived near. The industrial revolution only made it tip the scales into an existential threat to our continued way of life.