The Myth of Primal Harmony

By: Matt Buttsworth

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Myth of Primal Harmony - the idea that primal peoples lived in harmony with nature and with each other - is central to the radical ecology movement and its belief that this idyllic way of life was destroyed by the intrusion of agriculture and cities, or in the present, by the multinationals and tree fellers of evil Western multinationals. But that is what the Myth of Primal Harmony is, a myth. Primal Peoples, hunting and gathering peoples in the distant past or the present, did not live in harmony with nature or with each other, often having a devastating impact on the animals and plants in their own environments, sometimes leading in the Pacific Islands to ecocide. The Myth of Primal Harmony is a devastating critique of this ecological belief by Dr Matt Buttsworth and is essential reading for those who do not believe in radical ecological politically constructed myths about the utopias of the past.