Yes, that was my understanding too. I don't have a solid ref for this now, but as far as I can tell, the entry here should be relatively accurate: https://en.w

Yes, that was my understanding too. I don't have a solid ref for this now, but as far as I can tell, the entry here should be relatively accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period It is true that the Holocene extinction and other events are caused by humans, and that, in the larger scheme of things, life on Earth would thrive better without us. But it is a fallacy to pretend everything is caused by us, and such claims only make conversations about real change caused by us more muddy than they need to be. At any rate, don't take "facts" from a magazine.