On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:33 PM, James Bonilla <callmejb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Native populations often significantly reshaped landscapes and areas. > For sure. For example it's quite suggestive that large marsupials in Australia became extinct around the time that humans first arrived. > Does that strengthen or weaken the case for renaming Mebourne to Marr? > How would it be relevant? In any case, it's not "renaming" to Marr, Marr is already the name for this area. If anything Melbourne is the "renaming" and if morality is a criterion for being allowed to rename something, then Melbourne would seem to have even less justification than Marr. > Heaven knows. The native populations cannot be considered to totally lack > instrumental ability, the ability to colonize or the ability to engage in > environmentally destructive activity. > Was someone suggesting otherwise? -- Charles
