Most of this episode is fine, but the patronizing lecture being given to his dark-elf elite guard or whatever she is, about how not-clearing forests is not much better than clearing them in terms of mudslides, is one of the WORST examples of less-well-travelled than they think they are Japanese INVESTORS trying to justify their choices in recent decades on islands that were never previously a part of the agriculture in-japan, that i have EVER seen.
Yes we know, that japanese food production was a great idea considering how much people wanted and were, selling it to them, before and including after population stabilization, and that one can balance food and timber in the same land, which if i'm not mistaken is a part of the plans for many islands including nature-corridors and parks, which is probably about as good a balance as one can ask for...
... but do NOT tell me , preach to me , that all land is the same, when it comes to floods, rainfall, evaporation, and the RATES involved.
Nor, avoid bevels/aqua-engineering , such as Japan is in no position to ignore, has been used in places like Cambodia and Indonesia, for a VERY long time.
Instead, this 'lecture' ... with the simplified but OMISSIVE 'choice' between ambiguous felling/clearing , and the again simplified supposed 'incapacity' of elves, which is itself, a ignorant simplification of what elves are actually meant to be BETTER knowers of , in balance, than humans,
utterly REEKS of spefiic-argument PRIMING , and indiscrimination and poor-research.
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lets see the kingdom come into contact with some similar-to Cambodian or Indo - elves, who correct BOTH these isolated ones, AND humans, at the same time,
and teach the humans, how to COMBINE aqua-engineering , flood-damage-minimization, forestry, AND farming ... all in the same space.
No-one does it like those traditions, with some small isolated examples like the cloud-moisture guys in Chile? Equador? I've forgotten where... the Incas?
Who conserve and re-use water with bevels on the way down the mountain.
If ancient people could do that, then it is our, MODERN-SHAME, that we pretend as though we cannot,
and the kinds of simplifications that are in content like this episode, are precisely the kind of indiscriminations we need to stop ourselves from committing upon-ourselves uneccessarily.
I felt like i was watching something written by a ,
'retuned-from-a-holiday-to-Texas-with-a-pair-of-Jeans-with-holes-in-them-that-only-cost-50,0000Yen'
utter-imbecile , wearing a cowboy hat on his/her head as s/he wrote it , thinking that one or the other , must be chosen, at-only the other's expense.
Get REAL , you American-bootlicking traitor.
Visit Cambodia or Indonesia, LEARN how they do it, and then have another go, with some new 'race' , if you must , that does it differently, and have those elves correct the hopelessly passive and submissive and receiving instruction FROM human ones in this series, have them LIBERATE the isolated ones under human rule, and have them CONDITIONALIZE their return to peace AGAINST huamans, after having joined the new ones who are at war with humans, UNTIL they learn how to do both.
Even just water-irrigated croplands, has more VALIDITY in terms of floods, but this ludicrously simplifying scene made me want to vomit.
Yes we know, that japanese food production was a great idea considering how much people wanted and were, selling it to them, before and including after population stabilization, and that one can balance food and timber in the same land, which if i'm not mistaken is a part of the plans for many islands including nature-corridors and parks, which is probably about as good a balance as one can ask for...
... but do NOT tell me , preach to me , that all land is the same, when it comes to floods, rainfall, evaporation, and the RATES involved.
Nor, avoid bevels/aqua-engineering , such as Japan is in no position to ignore, has been used in places like Cambodia and Indonesia, for a VERY long time.
Instead, this 'lecture' ... with the simplified but OMISSIVE 'choice' between ambiguous felling/clearing , and the again simplified supposed 'incapacity' of elves, which is itself, a ignorant simplification of what elves are actually meant to be BETTER knowers of , in balance, than humans,
utterly REEKS of spefiic-argument PRIMING , and indiscrimination and poor-research.
--------
lets see the kingdom come into contact with some similar-to Cambodian or Indo - elves, who correct BOTH these isolated ones, AND humans, at the same time,
and teach the humans, how to COMBINE aqua-engineering , flood-damage-minimization, forestry, AND farming ... all in the same space.
No-one does it like those traditions, with some small isolated examples like the cloud-moisture guys in Chile? Equador? I've forgotten where... the Incas?
Who conserve and re-use water with bevels on the way down the mountain.
If ancient people could do that, then it is our, MODERN-SHAME, that we pretend as though we cannot,
and the kinds of simplifications that are in content like this episode, are precisely the kind of indiscriminations we need to stop ourselves from committing upon-ourselves uneccessarily.
I felt like i was watching something written by a ,
'retuned-from-a-holiday-to-Texas-with-a-pair-of-Jeans-with-holes-in-them-that-only-cost-50,0000Yen'
utter-imbecile , wearing a cowboy hat on his/her head as s/he wrote it , thinking that one or the other , must be chosen, at-only the other's expense.
Get REAL , you American-bootlicking traitor.
Visit Cambodia or Indonesia, LEARN how they do it, and then have another go, with some new 'race' , if you must , that does it differently, and have those elves correct the hopelessly passive and submissive and receiving instruction FROM human ones in this series, have them LIBERATE the isolated ones under human rule, and have them CONDITIONALIZE their return to peace AGAINST huamans, after having joined the new ones who are at war with humans, UNTIL they learn how to do both.
Even just water-irrigated croplands, has more VALIDITY in terms of floods, but this ludicrously simplifying scene made me want to vomit.