Humans Implicated in Africa's Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago

SciTechDaily ^ | February 11, 2012 | (listed below)

[JRios1968]

African villagers driving SUVs, 3000 years ago.

[JRios1968]

Let me guess... A significant lack of RAIN Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago.

No, CLIMATE CHANGE!

[Getready]

Exactly what percolated in my mind. By removing trees they contributed to global warming also Less O2 production. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere when burning. Horrors.

[central_va]

Paging Greta Thunberg. How dare you!

[PeterPrinciple]

Like the Great Plains during the dust bowl, due to the almost complete destruction of the deep-rooted prairie grass for farming in a region with very few trees.

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I would propose the destruction of the deep rooted prairie grass might have happened even if there was no farming.

It was a multiple year drought.

[SunkenCiv]

😎

[Texan5]

It seems obvious to me-and I don’t play a scientist on TV-more humans moving to the area cut down more trees to build shelters, fuel fires for cooking, smelting and other daily uses of wood, drought lasting several years-and humans not smart enough to know that trees don’t grow fast or well in a drought-and not at all when an area is clear-cut. A perfect storm that has taken place before in other areas of the world and still does wherever really clueless people live...