First Principles: Learning from Buffalo

Albert Bates
The Shadow
Published in
8 min readMar 12

Many people think that we followed the buffalo, when in fact the buffalo followed us.

I seem unable to explain to some of my critics why I cling to natural solutions over high-tech inventions like artificial trees, nuclear energy, and AI. While surfing YouTube I came across an inspiring, hopeful TEDxKC talk by permaculture master teacher Lyla June, Diné (Navajo).

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Albert Bates
The Shadow

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.