Beware The False Prophets of Terra Perta
It is quite worry some that development interest are seizing on "Artificial landscape" for justification of unsustainable practices, when the real lesson about TP culture is it's amazing Sustainability!
They are using TP as a drunk uses a lamp post.............. for support rather than Illumination.
Erich
Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa
Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa
"Artificial or pristine landscape?
In the community of environmental archaeologists and paleo-ecologists, there are two distinct theories on pre-Columbian Amazonian populations. One commonly held vision says that the Amazon rainforest as it exists today is not 'pristine' at all, but basically an 'artificial landscape', created in ancient times by millions of people, who farmed, slashed-and-burned, logged and used the forests extensively and for centuries. According to the other camp, there is scant evidence for this hypothesis, and instead one can assume that the Amazon was sparsely populated, and only by small, primitive groups, whose impacts on the ecosystem have always been marginal."
