pitch wrote:
Humans have always been slobs. Many native groups lived in an are until it was just nasty and then built a new village. Our pioneer ancestor's tossed their refuse out the back door, or if they were lucky enough to have a flowing river, directly into the drink
Where would archeology be if it wasn't for slobs?
Certainly not approving of littering, but am merely pointing out that it is nothing new.
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No it is not something new.
What is new is the amount of people on the planet now. It took 100000 years for humans to reach the population level of 1 billion. In the last 250-300 years we have gone from 1 billion to 7.5 billion. It doesn't sound like much but, a billion is a really big number.