HERE ON EARTH - BY TIM FLANNERY

BOOK BITS -  "Here on Earth" by Tim Flannery

 

THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF EARLY MAN
 

By Tracy W.

The notion that American Aboriginal people and early humans all over the world lived in harmony with nature leaving an insignificant ecological footprint - as taught in universities and disseminated by the media - is a major historical distortion that goes against scientific evidence.

If that notion is partly true, it is only because of their very rudimentary tools and their small populations - a matter of degree rather than of spirit.   In actual fact they were as destructive as their technology and numbers allowed them to be.  And the results of their actions were ecologically devastating.

 

Tim Flannery:  " Within five hundred years of human arrival North America had lost thirty-four genera of large mammals (each genus being composed of one or several related species), while South America lost fifty genera, the most of any continent."

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More Book Bit comments on the book HERE ON EARTH- Our Fascination with Disaster Movies - A theory
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/03/book-bits-here-on-earth-by-tim-flannery_17.html

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