> some researchers have suggested that excessive deforestation in the Maya lowlands, which was once home to some 10-15 million people I just can't quite get o

> some researchers have suggested that excessive deforestation in the Maya lowlands, which was once home to some 10-15 million people I just can't quite get over this stat they dropped in here. 15 million people in ~250 AD puts it in the same neighborhood as ancient Greece at their peak a few hundred years earlier.