tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post1025126456167000463..comments2023-10-26T03:19:41.569-07:00Comments on Stephen Bodio's Querencia: Prehistoric Environmental DestructionSteve Bodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-59035463615578210522009-09-05T05:24:35.570-07:002009-09-05T05:24:35.570-07:00I was thinking more along the lines of hunting the...I was thinking more along the lines of hunting the mega fauna into extinction, rather than global warming.....L.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-72089955697620745072009-09-01T21:05:27.192-07:002009-09-01T21:05:27.192-07:00Well maybe they altered the climate a little. But...Well maybe they altered the climate a little. But for a little context consider that sea levels (used here as a crude proxy for warming) really started rising with vigor about 13,000 years ago, before the advent of agriculture. At that time the coastline was about 380 feet lower than today. 9000 years ago San Francisco Bay was a dry valley, this at a time when natives were most likely in hot pursuit of elk and deer under what are now ship channels and halibut haunts. 3000 years ago it is believed that NO glaciers were left in the Sierras. Since then they enlarged pretty dramatically, but have again shrunk back down to nearly nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-35374553693329737272009-08-28T13:19:26.255-07:002009-08-28T13:19:26.255-07:00I think there is no question that Native American(...I think there is no question that Native American(and other so-called "primitive" cultures) had a VASTLY superior cultural philosophy about getting along with Nature instead of trying to conquer it, as in comparison to the invading Europeans. But were they always so enlightened? Or perhaps wasteful, destructive ecological blunders in the ancient past eventually led to that harmonizing-with-one's-environment outlook. And these are lessons we are all having to relearn yet again in modern times....L.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com