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Reference: "Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa" by Germain Bayon, Bernard Dennielou, Joël Etoubleau, Emmanuel Ponzevera, Samuel Toucanne and Sylvain Bermell, 9 February 2012, Science.

1 posted on 07/08/2025 6:44:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

USAID needs to hit the 3000 year old lumberjack ancestors up for “reparations”.


4 posted on 07/08/2025 6:46:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Like Haiti?


5 posted on 07/08/2025 6:48:43 AM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: SunkenCiv

Glow bull discombobulation again! 🙄


6 posted on 07/08/2025 6:51:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Very racist of them to blame black people for this.


8 posted on 07/08/2025 6:59:45 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: SunkenCiv
”Bayon says that this indicates that the climate alone could not be a factor to explain this deforestation.”

Especially when there’s an agenda to foist.

9 posted on 07/08/2025 7:02:11 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: SunkenCiv

pretty convenient when scientific conclusions line up with political agendas. get this guy a grant right away!


11 posted on 07/08/2025 7:28:28 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: SunkenCiv
......they cleared land for farming and iron smelting.

I don't know if the population would have been large enough to have a significant impact on rain forest, but 4,000 years ago seems early for iron smelting. The Iron Age is generally accepted to have begun about 1200 BC.

12 posted on 07/08/2025 7:41:01 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: SunkenCiv

Thass raciss! Africa was a paradise before the colonizers came! Wakanda forever!


13 posted on 07/08/2025 7:43:49 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I didn't leave the Democratic Party. It LEFT me, and keeps going further left. )
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To: SunkenCiv

After humans “deforested” Africa, bureaucrats failed to organize and fine the crap out of said humans for doing something without first paying proper licenses, taxes, and permits. Otherwise government would have been able to save the planet.


17 posted on 07/08/2025 8:08:56 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Humans Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago”

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


18 posted on 07/08/2025 8:17:35 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SunkenCiv

African villagers driving SUVs, 3000 years ago.


21 posted on 07/08/2025 9:35:50 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Spork weasel!!! - Ralph, as quoted by Roscoe Karns)
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To: SunkenCiv

Paging Greta Thunberg. How dare you!


24 posted on 07/08/2025 12:23:49 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SunkenCiv

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...


27 posted on 07/08/2025 1:38:05 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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