A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia

ChrisArchitect 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Non-syndicated Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/11/06/landscapes-that-...

moi2388 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah right. So when ancient cultures cut down forests for canals and farming it’s “ biocultural continuity”, and when we do it’s destructive. Makes sense.

	▲	stetrain 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When I had one piece of birthday cake it was "a celebration" but now when I eat two entire cakes by myself it's "gluttony" and "concerning for my health." Makes sense.
	▲	Zigurd 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Scale and speed matters. Population scale. The capabilities of equipment and tools. So, sure, have a copper axe and go cut down a forest.

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fwipsy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Amazing and humbling to read about technological marvels from 1400 years ago. It really puts our modern achievements in a new light. It's tempting sometimes to think of innovation as a recent phenomen, but people have been innovating and solving the same problems for thousands of years. To be honest, I didn't even know they HAD e-commerce back then!

	▲	anon84873628 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		People seem to take for granted that since agriculture is one of the oldest technologies, it must be a "solved problem" and our modern approach is optimal. When in reality, modern industrial agriculture is one of the most ham fisted and naive approached to the problem: just bulldoze, fertilize, irrigate, and spray everything into submission. With many negative consequences of course, which we generally refer to as "unsustainable". Because understanding all the complex relationships within an ecosystem, and then how to engineer it to yield surplus material for human use without intolerable negative consequences, is in fact a cutting edge and poorly grasped science. The "biocultural legacy" is an empirical approach to this problem refined over milenia, which we would do well to understand and appreciate.