[ttt11199907]

You honestly don't think they "knew how seeds work"? It's not like you can't turn over leaves and see a literal plant growing out of a seed.

Why clear the land and plant a "crop" when you get enough from the plants that all the other animals rely on? Why would you try growing something that doesn't want to grow there? Particularly "crops" that ultimately end up destroying the native life of islands. See palm/rubber/coffee/tea plantations.

[simonh]

There’s more to knowing how to manage seeds effectively than knowing plants grow from them.

>why…when you get enough..

That’s the problem, you don’t always get enough, and when you don’t people die. Usually the children and old folks first. Creating your own food supply reduces that risk.

>ultimately end up destroying…

You think they could anticipate those future outcomes hundreds of years ago? Wow.

[abdullahkhalids]

What statistics do we have of how many people pre-farming (before~7-10k BC) died early due to starvation or malnutrition?

[fmbb]

> You think they could anticipate those future outcomes hundreds of years ago? Wow.

Crops destroying native life is immediate, not years in the future. It’s not like there was nothing before on that acre you cleared for planting.

[jojobas]

There's a lot to indicate at least the vast majority of the tribes didn't understand seeds (or sex-childbirth link for that matter).

>Why clear the land and plant a "crop" when you get enough from the plants that all the other animals rely on?

So that you don't have to walk many miles a day foraging and kill all but one of your babies at a time, cause you can't carry any more. Basically, same reason as anyone else who went from hunting/gathering to farming.

Also Aborigines had no trouble burning forests to make grounds more attractive to animals they hunted, eventually converting varied biomes to eucalyptus forests, so the purported do-no-harm attitude is proven bullshit.

[ttt11199907]

> Here's this one example, so therefore this is proven bullshit

Nice logic.

What is "a lot" that indicates the majority of tribes didn't understand that babies happen when sex happens? Have you ever heard folk stories or native stories about birth and death?

If you're on an island, having an uncapped population is a recipe for disaster. This much is on obvious. The goal of living isn't to create as many more humans as possible.

It's like you're offended that humans would follow the same natural path as animals where access to resources is finite. Or at least that it is "bad" or "evil" that humans could ever live in a situation where they can't just consume more andore resources