Did Africans not take advantage of Africa's resources because they care about the environment or because they dumb?

Did Africans not take advantage of Africa's resources because they care about the environment or because they dumb?

the second one.. they don't give a shit about what they do to the environment, they massacre endangered species every day

They had too many resources, so they didn't have to advance technologicly, unlike Europeans.

I doubt the enverioment is a concern to Africans, apart from a few decent countries like Morocco, South Africa nad Egypt... They probably couldn't give less fucks

Their resources got shipped to European countries through force.

Europe raped Africa.

i remember watching a documentary and blacks were picking cacao beans. they had no idea what it was used for. they were just picking it and selling it to nestle for dirt cheap.

it's not that they care about the environment. they will fuck it up if we pay them to. they lack the education and the infrastructure to make use of what they have

Africa's environment is very harsh compared to Eurasia. The technology and techniques required to capitalise on all the raw resources are too far for peoples to simply leap too by themselves. This explains why they never developed civilisations as advanced as Eurasians.

This does NOT explain why they didn't instantly adopt superior technology like Native Americans or Maori's did.

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White people are literally the only ones who care about the environment.
The brown South Americans chop down their forests without replanting.
The Asians pollute their air and sea.
The Africans hunt their animals until extinction.
Whites are the race which creates the means for destroying the earth, (economies reliant on lumber, oil, exotic goods,etc) but we are also the only ones who can put it down for the sake of the future.
The other races only think with greed.

look at that face.

just dumb bro