"Agrarian Society caused limited destruction of environment over 10,000 years.......because their activity was limited to food, clothing and shelter." Back when population was low and population density was low. When people did crop rotation and fallowing of fields often. Back when people did not use fossil water or fuel. Back when people would use their excrement for fertilizer and shallow bury their dead for the worms to eat. Making tools to make work easier was fine until overpopulation came in and over-use started. Digging canals to bring in water was fine until it was polluted and used up by too many people. Even an agrarian society can get too big and cause soil depletion, and huge pollution. Look at India today, a cloud seven times its size blocking sunlight to others, losing their crop yields,and its CO2 causing warming and monsoon disruption, while the cooking fires' soot goes to the Arctic, darkens the snow and ice, increasing melt and sea level to its neighbor, Bangladesh, another overpopulated hell-hole. Even "limited destruction" adds up over time, and much of India's soil is without any organics, where, without petro-chemical fertilizers, it would grow no food at all. Aquifers depleting, too, as rivers are saturated with human excrement pollution. Industry should have been limited to non-depletion and non-pollution levels, and population, too. Crowds cause insanity, and destroy the environment. India is crowded, China is crowded, all cities are crowded, and many other areas are crowded too much. Too much consumption over resource recycling, regeneration or recharge, from too much demand by overpopulation and too much industrial use of fossil fuels and water, and surface water including the oceans. Depletion of soils, waters, fisheries, oil, and other resources, and pollution far beyond absorption levels in our soils, waters including oceans, and the very atmosphere to the point of malevolent climate change. Too many agrarian people would eventually do this too, by slash and burn agriculture, pollution from too much uncomposted trash and excrement, and seas full of sailing ships catching the last of the fish. In time. Fossil fuels, industry, and technology, along with over-compassion and over-tolerance, and inability to see far ahead the consequences of their actions, along with over-breeding, stupidity, and greed, are all to blame for what has happened. If humans would have stayed hunter gatherers without big spears or bows and arrows, they may not have started the Sixth Extinction. >>>If they had been wise with the use of technology, resources, breeding, agriculture, and industry, AND religions---they would have understood to stay within sustainability limits, in harmony with nature.<<< The Earth's population would have reached maybe a billion and stayed there. People are too dumb on average, and too greedy. It is too bad that they pull down the minority that CAN live sustainably with them.
_________________ "With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle “Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein
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