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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by ddnb on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:17AM (#17345261)
If there's not enough rain to sustain a forest, then even should they have been left untouched in antiquity they wouldn't be there anymore now either right?
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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by ptaipale on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:30AM (#17345595)
Where I live, you can't really destroy a forest. You can hack it down and lay concrete over the ground; if you then leave it there, in a matter of decades or centuries it'll be a forest again, if you don't regularly weed it out and hack it down again.

If climate changes - as it has changed in the Mediterranean, prior to industrialisation - that's then different.

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