You would be surprised to find out how Western oil companies, combined with the megalomania of African despots spoiled the landscapes. Fortunately, the old private hunting grounds created for the former European colonizers eventually became wildlife nature reserves.
Sebastianus, you're reacting like the typical
Homo sovieticus who once believed Human achievements could triumph over Mother Nature. But your "superior" civilization feels powerless when a catastrophe like Chernobyl or Fukushima occurs.
Your fellow countryman Big Smoke joked about petting a lion. But how would you react if being lost in the middle of a wild landscape, almost naked, you had to face a lion ? Before Europeans came, most African hunters knew how to deal with that problem. But it's a long time since lions got extinct in Portugal. How would you do to find water in a dry shrubland ? Would you be able to make weapons to hunt animals and defend yourself ? Would you be able to light a fire at dusk to keep predators away ? Could you identify venomous plants, flowers and mushrooms ? That's the kind of things Africans could master before Europeans came ?
Do you feel superior only because Europeans exterminated most of their fauna ? Then being an European is rather pathetic.
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