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But then you become a slave of those pesky humans and their whims, while trees grow freely in forests where they didn't face much danger from humans before the
by qb45 11y ago
But then you become a slave of those pesky humans and their whims, while trees grow freely in forests where they didn't face much danger from humans before the industrial revolution.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoThere's a fun little Roman bedtime story about a determined man who cuts down an important god's favorite forest for firewood and is cursed with insatiable hunger that eventually drives him to sell all of his possessions and even his daughter into slavery before he eats himself to death. Needless to say, people were a threat to forests long before industrialization.
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- ajuc 11y agoActually in Europe there was heavy deforestation between 1100 and 1500 already.
- qb45 11y agoYeah, I was looking for information on pre-industrial deforestation and found that too. Apparently, deforestation was also a problem in the vicinity of some ancient cities.