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One of the first things we have early humans doing on record is burning down forests: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-may-have-used-fire-to-c

• sfn42 3y ago
  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.