> Industrial forestry, resource extraction, and other aspects of human sprawl are like salmonberry thickets—swallowing up land, reducing biodiversity, and simplifying ecosystems at the demand of societies always bent on having more. In five hundred years we exterminated old-growth cultures and old-growth ecosystems, replacing them with opportunistic culture
-- #RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetgrass #OldGrowth vs. #PioneerSpecies
...compare with #kropotkin via #gould
https://suha.ng/zettelkasten/202201021449-old-growth-cultures.html