Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 5
th, 2024 at 5:08pm:
Still nothing substantive about Aboriginal culture - nothing here but endless carping and striving for top of the dung heap.....
You are required to go first friend, remember, you can't be trusted, actions speak louder than words.
Quote:Come on, children - be better..............................
I could not have said it better myself.
Quote:There weren't enough of them and they merely survived on it, so their impact was negligible apart from the species driven to extinction... no possible way of suggesting that terraforming the land and changing its use to actual use for farming etc 'harmed' it.... no way of comparing at all..
It's ludicrous to even suggest that they carefully and craftily husbanded the land when they wandered about in groups of ten or so... they didn't DO anything but survive ... most especially about caring over the land...
I would strongly urge you to educate yourself beyond any preconceptions or uninformed biases regarding Indigenous Australians and their land management practices.
Indigenous Australians practised sophisticated land management techniques that included carefully managing hunting practices to prevent overhunting in specific areas. This approach was part of a broader, sustainable land and resource management system that Indigenous communities developed over thousands of years.
Key strategies included rotational hunting and seasonal patterns, firestick farming, cultural laws and spiritual practices and even totem systems.
Perhaps before revisiting this discussion, you should familiarise yourself with these practices in detail. Willful ignorance does not alter reality. Indigenous Australians' knowledge of land management was borne from a deep understanding that their survival depended on responsible resource use, a reality that modern society could stand to remember.
We have the luxury of deferring the consequences of environmental neglect onto future generations, but Indigenous Australians faced these challenges season by season, in a stark, immediate way.
If anything, we should be learning from their methods rather than engaging in the ideological opposition to sustainable practices that is, ironically, often shared by those who marginalise Indigenous communities.
Take the time to educate yourself, be better.
It is ludicrous and totally anachronistic to speak of Aboriginal "land and resource management systems". Pascoesque.
over thousands of years'. To demonstrate development you would need to be able to show change over time. But that is precisely what did not happen.
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