Just because "indigenous people" harvested oysters "sustainably" doesn't mean they did that intentionally. Their technology was limited or their was limited demand for oysters vs. other food.
People have always exploited their environment to the limits of their technology up until the point of intersection of the supply/demand curve.
Anyone claiming otherwise is full of shit. Native Americans used to scare herds of buffalo off of cliffs, wasting most of the buffalo, for example.
Right. There is no fucking way to overfish oysters with the tools they had.
Also need to consider the population size along with their tools.
And even more to the point, consider predator populations like wolves. As their prey numbers decline, so does the wolf population, and as the wolf population declines, the prey numbers go back up. Look at this, wolves live in harmony with nature and don't overhunt their prey. Wow, what an accomplishment for indigenous people!
I've read that American abbos (indians) were not the noble stewards of the land that revisionists want you to believe. They killed everything in site and torched the soil with their human waste and garbage.
Yep, so tiresome with all this 'indigenous sustainability/ living with nature ' cope. Their smaller population sizes and limited technology, in general, meant they had little to no lasting impact on most resources - except of course the dozens of actual examples where 'indigenous cultures' wiped out entire species or the habits various wildlife needed to survive.
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