These earthworks may be the only things remaining of the local tribes that inhabited the area. The question is if these works were done at a time the Amazon was a densely packed forest/jungle, or it was different and since the disappearance of their makers, the jungle took over.
It’s recorded by the first European settlers that the land was rich in food that could be collected by the forest. In reality the native people practiced silvicuture and selected better trees for food like cacao and they would collect fruits/seeds from the vegetation planted hundreds of years before without damaging the forest, just making genetic modifications. Some traditional groups still make this kind of selection nowadays
It's not just profits and the "cash cow" it's also people that need to eat food. Anyone interested in saving these "mounds of dirt" are welcome to offer the farmers "cash" to buy the mounds to save them. It's sorta a choice between growing food so people can eat or saving the "mounds" so people can look at them, analyze and study them.
All the best first world countries are capitalist. Communism and socialism have never worked. So what is wrong in South America is left-wing politicians who increase the size of the state, increase taxes, bureaucracy and increase state regulations that hinder the market. It is Economic Freedom that makes countries develop, and in South America left-wing policies harm Economic Freedom, and that is why South America is problematic.
I do not understand why a 3000 year old structure that has no use for us in modern times need to be protected. The land can be utilized for something more important. Want to keep the structures? Pay the landowner for their loss of potential income each year. And then tell the people that their is no land to produce food.
I was thinking the same. Why do they think they're for ritual purpose when there seem to be thousands of them? Wouldn't that dilute the significance of these places? My bias would be that they were more practical, and permaculture is one of many possibilities!
These "geoglyphs" need to be archeological sites instead of how they are. In the past, it's often foreign organizations or private individuals even that provided the funding to do so. These geoglyphs need that. 🤷♂
I'm always happy when stories like this reach international media. But I'm also sad that they are ignored by our own.
Você acredita que algo vai mudar baby ?!
These earthworks may be the only things remaining of the local tribes that inhabited the area. The question is if these works were done at a time the Amazon was a densely packed forest/jungle, or it was different and since the disappearance of their makers, the jungle took over.
It’s recorded by the first European settlers that the land was rich in food that could be collected by the forest. In reality the native people practiced silvicuture and selected better trees for food like cacao and they would collect fruits/seeds from the vegetation planted hundreds of years before without damaging the forest, just making genetic modifications. Some traditional groups still make this kind of selection nowadays
It's not just profits and the "cash cow" it's also people that need to eat food. Anyone interested in saving these "mounds of dirt" are welcome to offer the farmers "cash" to buy the mounds to save them.
It's sorta a choice between growing food so people can eat or saving the "mounds" so people can look at them, analyze and study them.
So true. It’s a typical example of the western “intellectuals” trying to lecture other countries how to be more woke.
Welcome to capitalism South America... Profits over everything....
Capitalismo tardío..
All the best first world countries are capitalist. Communism and socialism have never worked. So what is wrong in South America is left-wing politicians who increase the size of the state, increase taxes, bureaucracy and increase state regulations that hinder the market. It is Economic Freedom that makes countries develop, and in South America left-wing policies harm Economic Freedom, and that is why South America is problematic.
Short-term vision versus long-term vision. A recurring problem in capitalism.
@@jamesbell739 You are a disgusting socialist or comunist for say this. So you dont have moral or credibilit of say anithing
I do not understand why a 3000 year old structure that has no use for us in modern times need to be protected. The land can be utilized for something more important. Want to keep the structures? Pay the landowner for their loss of potential income each year. And then tell the people that their is no land to produce food.
0:44 I’m also a fan of Andrew Millison - are we sure those aren’t swales for the purpose of permaculture irrigation?
I was thinking the same. Why do they think they're for ritual purpose when there seem to be thousands of them? Wouldn't that dilute the significance of these places? My bias would be that they were more practical, and permaculture is one of many possibilities!
3k years from now all will be left from us will be just marks on the floor...
These "geoglyphs" need to be archeological sites instead of how they are. In the past, it's often foreign organizations or private individuals even that provided the funding to do so. These geoglyphs need that. 🤷♂
Interesting
3:22 what’s with this sound effect? I thought someone was calling me.
Que legal!
Como diz teĺetubbs: : " tá na hora de dizer tchau "!
Why aren't they digging up these structures?
lack of funding
Quem manda são os ruralistas.
Greenhouses and Vertical Farms are Better!
lol no
So sad, agrobusiness is destroying the forest and now also their archeological sites. Thue are destroying the past and the future..
The Uncertain Future of These Ancient Amazonian Earthworks