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True enough. There were tribes who didn't know how to make fire. They had to carry a coal around in a pouch, and if it went out, they'd have to wait for a wild fire to start on its own. If you want to suffer and starve, and watch your family live nasty, short lives, with most babies dying...

Australian Aborignies are a classic example. They lived in small tribal groups, and didn't farm or herd, so they must have been Enviromentaly Good, right? Right? They had a method of getting food we call "Fire Farming". It's when you set a fire, deliberately burning down a forest to both herd...