The Even Bigger Dig
If digging a hole at the beach and leaving it there is bad, you can bet doing the same thing in the middle of the jungle on an even grander scale is…also bad.
A subset of “primitive technology” videos have popped up on TikTok (though most seem to have been originally posted on YouTube) with hundreds of thousands of views. In the videos, a small group of men seem to use hand tools to carve out entire swimming pools, living rooms, underground lairs from the previously undisturbed forest floor.
Again, the veracity of these videos is widely disputed, and it’s likely the TikToks aren’t representative of all of the work, equipment, and people power that goes into these constructions. However, regardless of how it’s been done, the end result is a massive pit with no drainage system and a whole lot of soil displacement and erosion—all in the name of clicks.
