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Title: How ancient farming ruined wildlife
Post by: TylerDurden on December 18, 2015, 06:04:03 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3363879/Humans-harming-Earth-6-000-years-Spread-farming-caused-tipping-point-irreversibly-changed-world.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3363879/Humans-harming-Earth-6-000-years-Spread-farming-caused-tipping-point-irreversibly-changed-world.html)

There is a subsection which claims that the Amazon was previously cultivated in ancient times, but the population numbers given pre-1492 are so unbelievable, it cannot be taken seriously.

Title: Re: How ancient farming ruined wildlife
Post by: cherimoya_kid on December 18, 2015, 06:12:15 am

Humans created the Sahara desert, right? Through deforestation, farming, over-hunting, etc..

Title: Re: How ancient farming ruined wildlife
Post by: TylerDurden on December 18, 2015, 07:03:56 am

Quote from: cherimoya_kid on December 18, 2015, 06:12:15 am

Humans created the Sahara desert, right? Through deforestation, farming, over-hunting, etc..

Strangely enough, it seems that humans had no effect, it was simply that the Sahara used to be a desert until the onset of the Neolithic era when it became full of water and then it became a desert gradually until nowadays.

Title: Re: How ancient farming ruined wildlife
Post by: sabertooth on December 18, 2015, 09:39:18 am

Prehistoric climate change......