tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post4539742610215928087..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: The Last of the NomadsWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-83427621399857029432017-10-04T12:22:17.257-07:002017-10-04T12:22:17.257-07:00Hi Anonymous,
As for Friendly Mission, the univer...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />As for Friendly Mission, the university here doesn’t have it, nor does Amazon. It’s out of print, 50 years old, and probably far out of my price range. AND… it’s 1,100 pages!!! EEK!<br /><br />I saw note of the Pintupi 9 elsewhere, but they were beyond the scope of a book review. They were 1984. Wiki says: <br /><br />The Pintupi Nine were a group of nine Pintupi people who lived a traditional hunter-gatherer desert-dwelling life in Australia's Gibson Desert until 1984, when they made contact with their relatives near Kiwirrkurra. They are sometimes also referred to as "the lost tribe". The group were hailed as "the last nomads" in the international press when they left their nomadic life in October 1984.<br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-11295326215514160962017-10-04T12:04:24.550-07:002017-10-04T12:04:24.550-07:00Hi Harley! Hope you’re breathing easier after the...Hi Harley! Hope you’re breathing easier after the weeks of wildfire. No other animals leave anything behind for the future besides compost. Humans are just 200,000 years old, or so. Most other species go back much further. We are animals. This is an important philosophical question for our age — is it more intelligent to live sustainably, and leave nothing behind, or is it more intelligent to leave a wrecked planet? Knowingly choosing the path to self-destruction does not seem to be our best choice. Animals can live just fine without scriptures, or even the brilliant writings of you and I. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-36222452890686382672017-10-04T09:19:06.642-07:002017-10-04T09:19:06.642-07:00Hunter gatherers subsist and survive, but leaving ...Hunter gatherers subsist and survive, but leaving nothing behind for the future. With no written language, they leave no sustainable record. In Danish prehistory the sone age peoples hunted until they exhausrted the available prey to sustain their growing population and had to turn to cattle raisig and farming. But even they left behind no written records. Written language goes back only about 5000 years in the form of Chinese and Aramaic/Hebrew. The Hebrfew produced the Hebrew Scriptures, adopted by Christians as the "Old" Testament. Huntere gatherer is subsistence but no more. Humans kill off the large animals, work their way down. So no more mastodons. It's not idyllic, but then neither is Chicago.Harley L. Sachshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802012811755908209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-12581408694023890592017-10-03T23:57:59.728-07:002017-10-03T23:57:59.728-07:00Are you familiar with the story of Truganini? The...Are you familiar with the story of Truganini? The plight of the Tasmanian aborigines is nothing short of horrific. I'm in the in the process of reading "Friendly mission : The Tasmanian journals of George Augustus Robinson 1829 to 1834". Not sure if you could get your hands on it but I have no doubt you would find it up your ally. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-77827876322803977592017-10-03T22:49:04.301-07:002017-10-03T22:49:04.301-07:00I was going to recommend the future eaters to you,...I was going to recommend the future eaters to you, but it appears you've already read it. I found the last of the nomads very sad. The last of the nomads were actually the pintupi 9 who came out of the desert in 1983 (I think). There are a few interesting articles about them on the web which may interest you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com