how is our burial "system" different?
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via3.hypothes.is via3.hypothes.is
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Nothing "goes away"; it is simply transferred from place to place,
transcendentalist
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First there is its spatial complexity: how can we encompass in a unifying idea the existence, as a stable, continuing entity, of the richly populated, kaleido-scopic ambiance of a tropical jungle and the seemingly dead, unchanging desert?
milankovitch cycles? ocean currents? jet streams?
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ransformed what was a fatally linear process into a circular, self-perpetuating one.
"all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed and luckier"
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Without the earth's natural environmental constituents-oxygen, water, fuel-the airplane, like man, could not exist.
makes me think of walden
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In the eager search for the benefits of modern science and technology we have become enticed into a nearly fatal illusion: that through our machines we have at last escaped from dependence on the natural environment
what is the implication of this on the aspirations of all these tech billionaires saying we need to become or we will become an interplanetary species?
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and young bracken fern fronds, and to clear the brush from the forest understory
i feel like a case could be made where this fits into the definition of agriculture because they observed and acted on processes of nature to provide for themselves. its not as explicit as plowing a field but i think it counts
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When the Spaniards arrived in the 1600s there were an estimated ro,ooo to 20,000 people settled between Monterey and San Francisco, one of the densest Native populations in North America
i wonder what the population looks like over time
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These immigrants were the ancestors of the Ohlone, the group of California Indians that the Spaniards encountered when they first visited the region in 1602.
important to know considering spanish and old world perspectives are founded on the first people they met - a group culturally different than other indigenous groups in california
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They used fire to clear dead grass and stimulate new growth;
whenever we talk about human impact on the planet it is negative so it is refreshing and comforting to know that we can help an ecosystem thrive, not alter it
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early immigrants relied heavily on plants for food. Most significantly, they turned a variety of hard seeds into flour by grinding them between hand stones
often the semi nomadic/hunter gatherer groups are depicted as on a constant effort to find the next source of meat, i wonder if the process of making flour can be traced up the pacific northwest
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Spanish citizens through farming and ranching.
slave labor actually
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Although all of these languages shared a common root, they were quite varied, and speakers of one language probably could not readily understand speakers of other Ohlone languages
how do we explain such a variety in language considering the proximity?
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