08/11/02 14:03:26
It is more and more clear that the past was not one long period
of green wisdom.
Research shows that primitive peoples modified their environment
in many ways through building , migrating , farming , and keeping animals.
Even Native Americans , favorites of romantic environmentalism,
turn out to have burned , over-hunted , and in some cases
used up their forests.
This is not a reason to blame people who lived before our time,
but it is a good reason to realize that the whole blame game is of limited
usefulness.
よろしくお願いします。