Tell that to lightening !! /sarc
Eco terrorism is in our genetic makeup. /s
Fire is as natural as anything on the planet. In fact, many, many species of plants and trees DEPEND on it to clear a path, as it where, for their offspring.
There are seeds bound so tight that only fire can open them and many trees species rely on fires to clear competing trees so their young can get sunlight.
Early man just figured out how to use fire for their benefit, like a tree, just a lot faster.
But a lightening or volcano inspired forrest fire didn’t have any impact???
Right.
We have to ban human beings from the forests. They rub two sticks together and burn EVERYTHING!
“...stone artifacts dating as far back as 92,000 years ago...”
Stone can’t be dated; how did they arrive at 92,000 years?
I kind of dig archeology and anthropology, mostly because it is like creative storying telling. Here's a story for you. I went hiking one beautiful autumn weekend with a friend in college. The leaves were at their peak. The air was cool and crisp. We stopped in the late afternoon to setup camp. I built a fire ring and started gathering firewood for that night. It was going to be cold. My neophyte friend was completely enthusiastic about making his first campfire. While I was away getting wood, he started the fire. But he didn't know we weren't ready. I didn't clear the area around the fire ring of leaves. I came back over a hill and to my surprise he had started a forest fire. We were able to put it out, but not without great effort.
See, there's a story. We were just manipulating the ecosystem.
Fire is totally natural, so there's no telling how such fires began -- maybe half were natural, half man-made, but nobody knows the true percentages.
Further, humans were not the only "ecosystem engineers".
Untold millions of large herbivores -- from elephants to wildebeests & zebras have significant effects on the vegetation they graze.
Not to say that puny little humans didn't contribute something, but it likely had more to do with the extinction of certain competing carnivore species.
Early arsonists.
Man caused fire is the same as man caused climate change. Nature, without man, is always kind and benevolent. /s
Ping
They used fire in a way that prevented regrowth of the region’s forests, creating a sprawling bushland that exists today.
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If humans 90,000 years ago created bush land deliberately, are they still doing it or do the practice die out many thousands of years ago, and if so why haven’t the forests returned?
Or is it a bunch of scientists having a theory and then go looking for anything that upholds that theory, while discarding all other possibilities? After all if its something to do with environment, it is a proven fact that without human intervention the environment would never change and the weather would always be perfect planet wide, right? Therefore, humans are responsible for this wanton deforestation obviously!
https://answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/evidence-for-young-earth-creation/
Interesting. Also proves there were no Rhinoceros there to put out those fires!
Thanks Salman. While checking for earlier stories about this (sounded familiar), found instead that the Lake Malawi keyword is pretty interesting.
When the English first sailed up and down the coast of north america —they reported that sometimes it looked like the whole continent was on fire.
The Indians were burning away the underbrush in the forest. This enabled grass to grow under the trees which was food for deer buffalo and elk—plus rabbits and other small game.
This made the the forests of the eastern seaboard look like parks.
Indians in the midwest did the same thing as did the california indians.
The Indians were forest managers.
