Can we turn DC into a Rain Forest?
Are you telling me man used the environment to his advantage? I am shocked.
You didn’t build that!
Agenda 21.....
Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say ‘save the rainforest’, but what do you know?
You’ve never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes ‘cos caring sells
All you activists can go ...k yourselves.
Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
Its totally gay, it’s totally gay
Each year, the Rainforest is responsible for over three thousand deaths from accidents, attacks or illnesses.
There are over seven hundred things in the Rainforest that cause cancer.
Join the fight now and help stop the Rainforest before it’s too late.
-Getting Gay With Kids (South Park)
I read a book called The Lost City Z which tells of explorers from the 19th century who found evidence of roads and water systems, etc. Some satellite images have confirmed this from what I understand. The problem is the jungle very quickly reclaims structures and other evidence.
An interesting side article from the main one you posted:
“A genetic study is threatening to transform theories about who the first people to inhabit the Amazon really were.
Scientists have found three native tribes living in modern-day Brazil are in fact more closely related to Aborigines in Australia than they are to any other living population.
It suggest that the ancestors of Aborigines from Australasia may have migrated to South America thousands of years ago.
The findings also contradict the common belief that all native peoples in North and South America are descended from one group, known as the First Americans, who migrated across a land bridge over the Bering Strait around 15,000 years ago.
It is not known how the Aborigine ancestors made their way to Brazil, but it is possible they may have come by see or crossed ice to get there”
PING!
Don’t know that 8 million is more than a pimple on the ass, there are 3 billion today.
I’m not convinced there is man made global warming. But a study with 8 million seems pretty worthless.
Studies (which I don’t have available offhand) have indicated that the American South was completely groomed when the Europeans first landed on the continent. In other words, there were forests of tall trees with grasslands and crops underneath them, like a gigantic parkland with no underbrush. This came from regular burnings of the underbrush by the natives, both to clear the brush and regularly remineralize the soil from the ash of the burned brush. In addition, certain pigments needed to create “Mayan Blue” in what is not Mexico can only be traced to the American South, so the Mayans were up there, too. And of course there are many unearthed and still buried mound cities in the American South. All in all, the place was VERY different in the past, than people normally think of it.
EnvironMENTAList response to this info “The rain forest is man made?! It must be destroyed immediately!”
Very interesting and my guess is true
The Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and the Dominican friar Gaspar de Caravajal and about 120 of their men were the first Europeans to travel down the Amazon River in 1542. Orellana was a bit of a genius: he studied native languages before the expedition and had the extraordinary ability to acquire new languages as he went along. He would stop from time to time at a native village along the Amazon, and with his language skills he would make himself welcome. He would then set up a forge and workshop to repair his boats, which would take weeks. Both he and Caravajal reported that countless chiefs and delegations of tribes from the interior would come to the village to see and observe them, and that the ethnic variety and sophistication of the visitors were astonishing. Some, he even reported were tall and blonde, others told him that they were from large cities far in the interior.
It was more than a generation before any other European went down the river, but apparently by that time disease had devastated the region and nothing was left of the civilizations Orellana had encountered.