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I actually forgot that there is solid evidence now that Austronesians made contact with South America. So that's even crazier!

do you know how far madagascar is from easter island? if you're talking about mediterranean and river travel, yes you're right. but the pacific ocean + indian ocean are utterly massive.

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The "context" approach was the whole "Explainer" period that happened in journalism, most famously done by Vox (as another commenter mentioned)--but also many others.

What you end up getting is the approved narrative of "how things are" by the same class of people who all hobnob with each other.

Glad to see it's end. Look forward to what's next.

We're a few narratives deep.

You're responding to the "noble savages" strawman -- the OP article never claimed such.

(Moreover, you're responding with a relatively isolated incident of Native Americans driving buffalos off cliffs, which I agree happened and Is Not Good. But it's odd to mention in the larger historical context that the American Buffalo became endangered due to industrial scale slaughter caused by European settlers--A Big Deal, relatively speaking.)

On balance, yes, Native people are often the best guardians of the forest for a mix of reasons. One is the animistic belief systems, which falls under the "Noble Savage" bucket. But the other is they more often than not don't industrial-scale commoditize their living spaces, part and parcelling out the goods as raw material inputs. Which other groups, like Asians and Whites, often have.

I'm someone who is naturally strong at design, but studied CS/software engineering because I ultimately wanted to be able to build my own things. For years I tried to find careers hiring those unicorns -- people who could design and code -- but they were few and far between. My last gig that required both was at a hedge fund here in NYC, where they don't explicitly hire designers. These days I work exclusively as a software engineer, and I definitely miss those times when I worked as a designer. Among other things, the hours are easier and the amount of praise you get way higher :-)

>The notion of hunter-gather societies living harmoniously in equilibrium with nature that some people seem to view as an optimal societal arrangement doesn't fit very well with this scenario.

Where is this notion? I've been involved in environmental circles and humans wiping out mammoths, giant sloths in south america, or logging easter island to bareness are pretty well known.

It's gotten bad enough that if someone with an Indian accent is calling me and it sounds like it's from a call center, I hang up immediately.

The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries.

Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nation without the capital to build seawalls and other protections (as the Netherlands can).

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Reducing emissions to zero, scarily enough, is the minimum. We actually need to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere in order to prevent further temperature increases, which lag behind CO2 concentration by years.