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Originally Posted by dyna mo
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Yes, you misstated something, at least that 90 % part, or at least the subject for that number. And the Little Ice age thing might be true, but not that hard fact yet (the indian/ settler contribution).
"Nevle et al then got out their calculators and crunched the numbers. They estimate that for a population of some 40 to 80 million indigenous people, the total amount of deforested land would likely have amounted to something the size of California. And since most estimates suggest that close to 90 percent of the native peoples died or were killed after the Europeans arrived, that meant most of that land returned to forest."
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Research team suggests European Little Ice Age came about due to reforestation in New World
Or the picture about indians as some evil forest destroyers.
"This evidence suggests that Native Americans significantly altered the local ecosystem by clearing and burning forests, probably to make fields and enhance the growth of nut trees, Springer said. This picture conflicts with the popular notion that early Native Americans had little impact on North American landscapes. They were better land stewards than the European colonialists who followed, he said, but they apparently cleared more land and burned more forest than previously thought."
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Research team suggests European Little Ice Age came about due to reforestation in New World