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Bnichs
on Nov 10, 2023
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Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old ...
One of the first things we have early humans doing on record is burning down forests:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-may-have-u...
sfn42
on Nov 11, 2023
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On a much smaller scale though, now we do it industrially. Burning all the fossilized old forests we can dig out of the ground - which is even worse because they were no longer part of the carbon cycle.
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