'Pristine' Landscapes Haven't Existed For Thousands Of Years Due To Human Activity

Eurekalert! ^ | June 6th, 2016 | University of Oxford

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[samtheman]

With the humans came new species, fire, deforestation and predatory threats to indigenous animals and birds.

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So before people none of these things? People were the first predators?

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient DNA Shows Perfect Storm Felled Ice Age Giants

[SunkenCiv]

We can’t expect much from a gang of AGW zealots.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Due to STUPID people.Not everyone.

[SES1066]

I’m waiting to find out how ‘W’ was responsible for all of this or has that meme finally gotten shopworn from overuse?

As for the impact of Homo, while it has varied in population, I kind of have a problem with significant impact when you have a planet while the populations were between 5 and 7 digits of hunter-gatherers.

[Fred Hayek]

“Humanity is a virus infecting the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia. Kill all humans. “

[exDemMom]

Chickens, originally domesticated in East Asia, reached Britain by the second half of the last millennium and now outnumber people by more than three to one globally, says the paper.

So, for a species to be successful, it must become a popular human food source.

I have noticed that many species attempt to "taste like chicken." Could it be their desire to become more numerous by becoming a popular food item?

[ml/nj]

What a crock. I live 20 miles from Manhattan. 40 years ago or so when I was flying out of Caldwell Airport (officially Essex County Airport) I would take non-flyers up for a ride, Sometimes I would head west toward the Delaware Water Gap. On such flights, almost all newbies remarked at their surprise at how undeveloped everything was.

And that's nothing compared to a cross-country flight. Most of the land is still "desolate wilderness."

ML/NJ

[Nifster]

It’s all humans fault. Oh noes.

[Organic Panic]

We are every part of nature as everything else.

All animals use nature for their own benefit. Birds make nests. Foxes dig holes. Beavers make dams. Bees make hives.

[Tax-chick]

One you define “pristine” as “unaffected by humans,” you’re all the way to the conclusion you were looking for.

[Adder]

There were never pristine environments.
If these peop.e hate themselves so much, they can just kill themselves.
We’d appreciate it.

[The Great RJ]

So the perfect world is one without humans. I challenge liberals to be the first in line to off themselves in eco friendly disintegration machines

[marktwain]

“People were the first predators?”

We are the apex predator on the planet.

Both science and the Bible agree.

[jdsteel]

Huge forest fires raged and swept across parts of continents in that “pristine” world.

[Tax-chick]

But that’s okay, you see, because that was “natural.”

[Does so]

Lightning has started underground coal- and peat fires that burn for decades—if not longer.

[Does so]

And that's nothing compared to a cross-country flight. Most of the land is still "desolate wilderness."

North America can support millions of refugees. /s