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Re:Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought by greglindahl on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:29AM (#20845217)
There's a difference between "relatively advanced civilizations" and "civilizations that significantly altered the Earth".
Re:Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought by perl4ever on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:36PM (#20849754)
You could argue that, but I would be inclined to question how advanced a civilization was that didn't prosper enough to alter the environment. A civilization that is "advanced" should be fairly good at logistics, and that leads to a large population, which leads to a large environmental impact.

How in tune with nature or whatever people in a society are on an individual basis wouldn't affect the total impact if whatever they are doing works well enough that everything keeps growing. I'm kind of thinking of Jevon's paradox.