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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (15652)	8/10/2007 5:26:15 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

I think neolib was referring to Hobbits and Elves who lived in complete harmony with nature.

To: one_less who wrote (15652)	8/10/2007 8:35:04 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Modern humans are thought to have had a number of "constriction" events where the total population was well below 100K individuals. 100K primitive people don't dominate much of anything. These events happened long after modern humans arose as a species. There is plenty of evidence that much more modern large cultures collapsed from time to time, but we don't always know why. We have almost no data to understand the long history of human success/failures prior to the last 5K years or so, a period quite short relative to our species existence.