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-Environmental literacy and environmental orality +**Environmental literacy and environmental orality** 
  
-The ability to read and store knowledge in written form has become so fundamental to our cultural imagination that literacy - the ability to read - is used as a wider indication of understanding. I’ve been interested in environmental literacy for while, and especially how it arises in humans, machinesand other organisms. This has taken shape in programs like Machine Wilderness and Random Forests.+The ability to read and store knowledge in written form has become so fundamental to our cultural imagination that literacy - the ability to read - is used as a wider indication of understanding and mastery. I’interested in environmental literacy, and especially how it arises in humans, animalsplants or machines. This has taken shape in programs like Machine Wilderness and Random Forests.
  
-Metaphorically speaking, an environmentally literate person or machine can be considered able to ‘read the book of nature’ and thus make sense of it. But for the majority of human existence, written denotation of language has been rare. The academic boundary set between history and pre-history is marked by the written word, only a few thousand years ago. Prehistory becomes anything pre-text.+An environmentally literate person, being or machine is considered able to ‘read the book of nature’ and thus make sense of it. But for the majority of human existence has not been accompanied by writing. The academic boundary set between history and pre-history is marked by the presence of the written word, only a few thousand years ago.
  
-Under closer inspection this boundary appears less uniform. In many ways ‘pre-history’ is still with us; reading emerges in different cultures at different times. Some groups of people communicate without the need for a written language. Illiteracy can be imposed on people in a literate culture both deliberately and by circumstance. Archeologist Gavin Lucas presents a way of considering prehistory as existing wherever the context or purpose of material cultures and artefacts are irretrievably lost.+Under closer inspection this boundary appears less uniform. In many ways ‘pre-history’ is still with us; the ability to read is not evenly distributed. reading emerges in different cultures at different times. Some groups of people communicate without the need for a written language. Illiteracy can be imposed on people in a literate culture both deliberately and by circumstance. Archeologist Gavin Lucas presents a way of considering prehistory as existing wherever the context or purpose of material cultures and artefacts are irretrievably lost.
  
 Seen over the timeframe of millions years of human existence, literacy is a very recent phenomenon and many areas of life remain fundamentally oral. So many things in life are still learned by people sharing things directly. The study of animal cultures has shown how fundamental direct exchange is to many forms of life. Where conservation efforts used to focus on organisms and habitats,  there is a growing recognition of the importance of conserving cultural transmission of knowledge among animal and even plant populations. Seen over the timeframe of millions years of human existence, literacy is a very recent phenomenon and many areas of life remain fundamentally oral. So many things in life are still learned by people sharing things directly. The study of animal cultures has shown how fundamental direct exchange is to many forms of life. Where conservation efforts used to focus on organisms and habitats,  there is a growing recognition of the importance of conserving cultural transmission of knowledge among animal and even plant populations.
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