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Where's the condemnation?
"They had achieved a pretty sophisticated level of living that I don't think people have fully appreciated," ..... "They were very advanced, and they knew how to get the most out of the forests and landscapes they lived in. This was all across North America, not just a few locations...They were better land stewards than the European colonialists who followed, .."
I don't see any condemnation of NA land use (2000 years ago). I don't think it's condemnation to say, "Oh - here's carbon! They must have been burning more than just a campfire."
(And, yes, I agree with you about "mountain top removal" mining.)
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road