[Terrapreta] Beware The False Prophets of Terra Perta

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Beware The False Prophets of Terra Perta
 
It is quite worry some that development interest are seizing on  "Artificial 
landscape" for justification of unsustainable practices, when the  real lesson 
about TP culture is it's amazing Sustainability! 

They are using TP as a drunk uses a lamp post.............. for support  
rather than Illumination.
Erich

_Bioenergy pact between Europe and  Africa_ 
(http://biopact.com/2007/03/amazonian-population-theories-paleo.html) 
_http://biopact.com/2007/03/amazonian-population-theories-paleo.html_ 
(http://biopact.com/2007/03/amazonian-population-theories-paleo.html) 

"Artificial or pristine landscape?
In the community of environmental  archaeologists and paleo-ecologists, there 
are two distinct theories on  pre-Columbian Amazonian populations. One 
commonly held vision says that the  Amazon rainforest as it exists today is not 
'pristine' at all, but basically an  'artificial landscape', created in ancient 
times by millions of people, who  farmed, slashed-and-burned, logged and used 
the forests extensively and for  centuries. According to the other camp, there 
is scant evidence for this  hypothesis, and instead one can assume that the 
Amazon was sparsely populated,  and only by small, primitive groups, whose 
impacts on the ecosystem have always  been marginal."
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