goatsarah@arroz @orc @klardotsh This is a good point and something I hadn’t thought about. There are thousands of years of practice of Europeans managing the environment, which we treat ourselves as part of. I understand the Native American population very much did the same until the settlers stopped them (which, it has been suggested, has contributed to catastrophic wildfires being much worse than they otherwise would be - also the Little Ice Age is theorised to have been caused by massive US reforestation soaking up atmospheric CO2 within a couple of generations after the Native Americans were driven from their ancestral lands).
The more recent settler population in North America seems to have very different ideas to both the people they displaced, and their European ancestors about how to manage the environment, with a sort of “all or nothing” approach (for example, nobody is allowed to live in many(most?) US national parks)
Most of the responses to this thread that have resulted in me server blocking people have occurred in US waking hours, although the fediverse is more culturally European than much social media, and the vast majority of the reaction to this thread has been very positive.
Something to think about.
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