And in your haste to brand all the indigenous as ignorant cave dwelling savages you completely missed the whole point of the article. In your kneejerk comment based on keywords you missed the premise they are putting forth altogether. They are saying that the indigenous were clearing way too much forest and harming the environment. TRUE.
So they are claiming that this reduction of the ignorant savage population was actually GOOD for the environment. It actually supports your prejudices that they should have and needed to be destroyed anyways and you didn’t even catch it. The article had nothing at all related to your initial comment.
And if you think these ignorant savages only lived in cave and tepees and grunted at each other you are the one who is lacking in historical facts. They had highly advanced civilizations, organized governments, and extensive trade networks that were successful for 10 thousand years.
In the meantime our “civilized” and “universal standard” culture has all but destroyed it’s self in only a thousand years. In no way can we claim intellectual superiority.
You very obviously misunderstood my port.
Try it again.