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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species by grondilu on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:05AM (#12547389)
You make it sound like we've been destroying environment only lately and with current political systems.

Humans have been wrecking havoc various environments ever since Neolithic. Although there's no definitive proof, there are strong suggestions that they were at least contributing to the disappearance of the Mega-fauna, for instance.

Examples of small human settlements in small islands are very characteristic, IMHO. Everywhere it happened, endemic birds where usually eradicated very quickly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_birds

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species by prawn on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:20AM (#12547476)
You were doing pretty well until that Maori culture comment. In their elimination of a species, are they really that different to man anywhere else?
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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species by grondilu on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:23AM (#12547504)
Fair enough. Edited.
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