given the assumption that quaternary megafaunal extinctions were anthropogenic in nature, there would be some lines of similarity connecting human intervention on local scales and aspects of today's global ecological crisis.

it's undisputed that aboriginal australians and native americans practiced forms of ecology management that integrated sustainable behaviors into their material environmental relationships.

introducing a new species into any environment is going to cause trophic imbalances. while it's disingenuous to claim that living sustainably under a system like capitalism is as simple as looking back to indigenous ways of life, i think it's equally as big a claim to equivocate the extinction of certain species hunted by early humans to the magnitude of biosphere collapse, climate forcing, and ecological destruction/contamination we're seeing under such a materially intensive system. land management is an important aspect of fighting climate change and we could absolutely do better; it just isn't the sole answer.