The Truth about the Americas in 1491 with Charles C. Mann
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Myth of the American Conservation Movement
The pristine myth is the founding myth of unfortunately the environmental movement. It means that we've comprehensively mismanaged so much of the land as a result of this myth, he says. The last indigenous people were kicked out of Yosemite until the middle of the 20th century and it really gives you a bad taste of those who had been living there for centuries.
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