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It's difficult to deforestate Central Europe any further because almost complete deforestation already took place during the Middle Ages and the early modern pe
by Sharlin 7y ago
It's difficult to deforestate Central Europe any further because almost complete deforestation already took place during the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
- richardhod 7y agoSouthern Germany and surrounding areas are much more forested than, for example, the UK, so this is not exactly true. Can we have more precise information?
- vanderZwan 7y agoThat reminds me of the discussions about overfishing. The amount of fish in the sea is a mere few percentages of what it was a century ago, but that already was way, way less than it was in the centuries before that. And we only went to fish in the sea after we had exhausted the rivers. This is the shifting baseline effect and it really negatively affects conservation efforts.