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Amazon
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:01 am
by gunny
1491 had interesting Amazon thoughts---The Lost City Of Z --by David Grann required reading----
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:26 pm
by kbs2244
A very important part of the book that doesn’t get enough coverage because he wrote it before some of the more dramatic findings.
It is being discovered that far from being a “pristine, untouched by humans, paradise” the whole Amazon watershed was intensely populated and farmed.
If you read the logs of the early explores, they tell of continuous villages along both sides of the river for as far as they traveled upstream.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:54 pm
by Digit
It's also questionable as to exactly how old the present rain forest is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest
Roy.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:16 pm
by Sam Salmon
Some germane discussion on this topic
HERE
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:06 am
by kbs2244
It would be real easy to push me over the edge and into a rant on how these discoveries are not publicized because they go against the “conservationist” propaganda.
The 5th Ave “naturalists” that think they know more about how to manage the Earth than the people that live there.
They are still running radio ads about how the Earth is going to run out of oxygen because of the logging in the Amazon reducing all those oxygen producing trees.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:34 pm
by Minimalist
Of course, if it turns out that they are right....
it could ruin my girl-watching.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:54 am
by Rokcet Scientist
