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Humans typically think of human history as separate from the history of our environments. Lately we’ve been delivering most of the blows, but historically ice ages, meteors, asteroids, volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, etc were all partly responsible for who we are. When the forests of Lebanon fell to civilization, that altered local cultures and life ways too, etc. I live in an area where someone named “cougar Annie” is famous for having killed most of the cougars. After her crusade against the wild, walking in the forest in these parts became and remains, a qualitatively different experience - less fear, less instincts, less raw connection to our environment. Human history isn’t t just isolated human events- which themselves are nearly impossible to decipher in their entirety because of the infinite variables involved, but the story of our local and sometimes global, environments. We make our environments and our environments make us.

Also almost every movement and probably individuals even, ‘washes’ history to their suiting and mantras and dogmas. Be it Marxist Leninists rehabilitating Bolshevism or Stalin, or trans activists rewriting/inventing large aspects of sexual/identity liberation or anarchists tendencies blind to alternate explanations of ‘what happened and why it happened”. In other words from history to anthropology, either collective, milieu based or individual lives, the past is almost always anthropocentric and washed to a lesser or greater degree according to beliefs.