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by marginalia_nu
1536 days ago
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The thing is trees take a long-ass time to grow, and if you need wood now to make tools to produce food, what are you gonna do, starve to death so someone else can make tools in 50 years? Man-made deforestation of islands is fairly well documented. Iceland was largely deforested by early settlers as well. Deforestation alone may not be what killed the settlers of Easter island, but it sure as hell didn't do them any favors to not have access to wood. |
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