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But only the Aboriginals living in their traditional manner can survive in it unaided. Unlike the white man, they make no attempt to dominate it. They do not try to tame its animals or to cultivate its sands, but to them it yields enough to keep a man’s soul in his body. In return, the Aboriginals worship it.
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It's disappointing to hear Attenborough regurgitating this "noble savage" BS. There is clear paleontological evidence of a MASSIVE spike in extinctions contemporary with the arrival of the first humans in Australia. The same thing happened thousands of years later next door in New Zealand, where humans wiped out the moa and species that depended on it within 2-3 centuries of arriving.