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The first big step in cultivation was farming. When people started to grow their own vegetables and breed their own animals, they had less reasons for having to move around all the time so they started to convert large pieces of forests into farming land, using the wood for building houses and for heating and cooking. They started to live in villages instead of tents and with that, the battles came; communities expanding their territory and taking the communities around them. I don't think this contributed to the destruction of the planet much as much as machines, trains and cars but cutting all the forests was a start of course. Europe once was one huge forest, now most forests are gone and we expect south-American and Asian countries to stop with the de-foresting.
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