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Environment & Energy

hunter

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5. There's always the skin and furs of animals we've hunted ourselves.

Reply to genxlib (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 11:12 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

These days there are too many people on earth for that to be an environmentally sustainable option.

When I was young I spent a lot of time naked in the sun and it shows.

My skin is like a garden of UV radiation induced mutations. I've had to have some scarier patches removed.

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