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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (15671)8/10/2007 9:02:41 PM
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"There is plenty of evidence that much more modern large cultures collapsed from time to time, but we don't always know why."

I'm not sure how that is responsive to my question about dominance. We don't always know the details or specifics but in general we know the kinds of things that cause collapses. In the case of culture it is always systemic corruption of one sort or other. Civilizations can be destroyed by cataclysmic natural events, disease, starvation, plague etc or by being conquered but never from the dominance of other creatures as far as I know.

"100K primitive people don't dominate much of anything."

You can speculate about some imaginary group if you want but I doubt you can find me even a small handful of actual people who've established themselves and who have not dominated over other creatures. Failing cultures and civilizations seems like a separate topic to me.
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