Just as a follow up, there’s a big debate among the Cherokee Nation right now. They’ve decided to plant a lobolly pine plantation on part of the reservation land, to bring in profit, and some people are protesting it.
I would say you made a very important point, here…
Not a good example. Crop rotation was universal and actually the only way to cultivate land without quickly exhausting it before fertilizers came into wide use (18th-19th century, if I’m not mistaken).
There seems to be an acceptance that ‘being in touch with nature’ involves some kind of conservation type thing.
I can’t think of any species ( including humans ) that limit their number by choice, isn’t it usually a lack of resource or competition.
From what I have read most primitive cultures operated a ‘kill until gone’ policy on food as it was easier than farming.