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Indigenous cultures did plenty with their observations too. For example, the biodiverse, well managed ecosystems that settlers found. I'd say just as important and impressive as Newton's lil laws

Hahahahaa. Okay. That’s great. That’s why all the megafauna were alive and well when the mayos arrived!

Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most widely-argued causes. However, the population dynamics of humans and megafauna preceding extinctions have received little attention even though such information may be telling as we expect increasing human populations to be correlated with megafaunal declines if hunting caused extinctions. No such trends are expected if climate change was the primary cause. We present tests of these hypotheses here by using summed calibrated radiocarbon date distributions to reconstruct population levels of megafauna and humans. The results suggest that the causes for extinctions varied across taxa and by region. In three cases, extinctions appear linked to hunting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07897-1

My noble savages causing extinctions?!

on a continental scale most megafauna have last appearances after humanarrival, but seem to last at least 1000 years after first human presence. Some taxa apparently survived>6000 years after humans entered South America and >1000 years after the end-Pleistocene climatic changes. Last-appearance patterns for megafauna differ from region to region, but in Patagonia, theArgentine and Uruguayan Pampas, and Brazil, **extinctions seem more common after humans arrive and during intensified climatic change between 11.2 and 13.5 ka. This pattern suggests that a synergy ofhuman impacts and rapid climate change analogous to what is happening today may enhance extinction probability

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222651184_Timing_of_Quaternary_megafaunal_extinction_in_South_America_in_relation_to_human_arrival_and_climate_change

The radlib idealization of indigenous and oppressed people is almost religious in its willful overlook of actual data.

>“Don’t bring up white people during this sacred discussion! This is a talk about salvation and how God’s, I mean, Social Justice’s mercy will save us and place us on the right side of history for all eternity!”

I have more native blood than any of these people, and yeah, they’re pretty cool—but this rises to the level of…I don’t know, it feels almost patronizing.

“Ooooooohhhj that’s soooooo good sweety! Your science is the best!”

“Germans had traditional stuff too”

“Shut up, don’t compare real peoples’ history to our wonderful little angels!”