Comments by "Factchekka" (@Factchekka) on "" video.
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@hedera1332 I don't know about you, but I personally didn't lose the desire to acquire knowledge just because I finished school. Just as you think my education only provided me with a "watered down" version of Aboriginal pre-settlement way of life, I know you have been educated with books like Dark Emu and The First Knowledges by authors like Bruce Pascoe, (an entirely non-aboriginal person who actually admits his books are stories, not factual), which completely over-embellish it.
I don't need to "look up" the detrimental effects of European farming practices, that is common knowledge and obvious to even a casual observer, but to say current farming practices are not sustainable is ridiculous because they have been supplying Australians with sustenance for hundreds of years as well as producing huge amounts of surplus that provides produce and livestock to millions of people in other parts of the world.
Of course, if you are applying the standard that anything that varies the environment from it's natural state is damaging to it, I don't see how you can overlook Aboriginal practices.
Aborigines drastically altered the natural landscape with their burning practices. This can been seen in the effect on vegetation displayed in the archaeological record. Just like every other place on Earth, the extinction of mega-fauna in Australia coincides closely with the arrival of modern humans.
The tools they used are no different to what other populations of humans were using 10'000 years ago. That in itself is staggering considering the 60'000+ years we are told they have been on this continent.
Aborigines were perhaps the most uninventive, unprogressive, undeveloped culture in the world, (relative to the length of time they have been around), at the time of European contact.
There is not a single invention, innovation or idea that comes from traditional Aboriginal culture that benefits modern Australian society in any tangible way. The suggestion that we should use Aboriginal farming practices today is bizarre. There is a reason the population of Australia today is over 26 million as opposed to the estimated 1 million before Europeans arrived.
Aboriginals have not had a unique experience in terms what happened after the arrival of Europeans. It is no different to what has occurred throughout human history...one group of humans dispossess another and either destroys, drives away or assimilates them. This happened to the "evil" Europeans as much as anyone else.
The only reason Aborigines stayed in a Palaeolithic way of life for so long was because of geographical isolation...nothing else. The argument that Aborigines didn't change because "they had everything they needed" is laughable and embarrassing, but often cited. Imagine if the rest of humanity applied the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" rule to life. We would all still be living in caves.
25% of the Australian land-mass has been returned to Aboriginals under the Land Rights Act. If their traditional way of life was so much preferable to the modern way of life, why aren't large numbers giving up what modern Australia provides and going back to living as they did for so long? The reason is of course obvious. To them, like yourself, the idea of giving up the comfort, safety and security that the modern way of life offers in Australia as opposed to living a predominantly nomadic hunter/gatherer lifestyle is horrifying...people know when they have it good.
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