30 Days-7/13/05-"Off the Grid"
07-20-05, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommy Ceez
The theory that hunter-gatherers were environmentally friendly is absolutly false.
You can track the inital expansion of pre-historic humans and directly coorelate the mass extinctions of most of the earth's large mammels.
Simply put, primitive hunter-gatherers killed everything they could get thier hands on, and when they ran out, moved on.
You can track the inital expansion of pre-historic humans and directly coorelate the mass extinctions of most of the earth's large mammels.
Simply put, primitive hunter-gatherers killed everything they could get thier hands on, and when they ran out, moved on.
What about more recent hunter/gather cultures? We live (most of us here) in a land of hunter/gather societies that were the exact opposite of your example. There are tribes in South America and Africa that do not hunt to extinction and move on, so there are examples for both sides, and I would cite more recent samples as more relavent, as they contain actual **** sapiens.
07-20-05, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Anybody else find it hilarious that they have a website?
07-20-05, 02:34 PM
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Some of the Rabbits were posting at the TWOP thread. They said that many of them have computers (mostly laptops). Most of the people there have jobs telecommuting or running Ebay stores and stuff like that. They said they can get away with earning much less money to live on because their expenses are so low.
07-20-05, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Anybody else find it hilarious that they have a website?
They're like Spock. They can get to the internet with the equivalent of stone knives and bearskins.
07-21-05, 08:20 AM
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When they showed the non sequitur about the mom in San Pedro who claims pollution is making her kids sick, I kept my thoughts to myself because my wife is normally the "sensitive" one about this sort of thing. That's when she blurted out exactly what I was thinking: "Why don't you just MOVE?"
