Mastodawn

Indeed USA and Brazil were built by destroying pre-Encounter @ecology

"Successful colonization of New England depended heavily on domestic animals. […]

"At least at first, friction between these unlikely neighbors grew less from the very different ideas that informed Indian and English concepts of property than from the behavior of livestock. Let loose to forage in the woods, the animals wandered away from English towns into Indian cornfields, ate their fill, and moved on."

Historian Virginia Anderson in her book "King Philip's Herds: Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England" https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/?cd=true&bdtext=feral-atlas-and-the-more-than-human-anthropocene&rr=true&cdex=true&text=fq-creatures-of-conquest&ttype=essay

#FeralAtlas #colonization #settlers #livestock #NewEngland #cattle #corn #agriculture #colonialism #NewWorld #puritans #Conquest #methane #history #AmericanHistory #IndianAmericans #WhiteAmericans #Europeans #English #domestic #America #emissions

Feral Atlas

M-A, Mar Nov 8, 2023

#FeralAtlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” #ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, #FeralAtlas argues, are the #Anthropocene. https://feralatlas.org/

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control.

Chthulucene Nov 16, 2020

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#FeralAtlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” #ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, #FeralAtlas argues, are the #Anthropocene. https://feralatlas.org/

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control.