[fmbb]

> You think they could anticipate those future outcomes hundreds of years ago? Wow.

Crops destroying native life is immediate, not years in the future. It’s not like there was nothing before on that acre you cleared for planting.

[simonh]

Hunter gatherers range over vast expanses of territory, they have to. A few fields is insignificant in comparison. Of course that grows with the population, but that’s the far future for anyone trying to survive right now at the point agriculture becomes an option.