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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by lacrimacida on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:13PM (#37503706)
If you compare to what extent the native population shaped the Amazon rainforest to the modern abundance in population, urbanization and explotation of the planet, I’d still consider the Amazon as pristine and untouched more or less…
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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by edgyquant on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:14PM (#37504135)
Okay? It wasn’t, it was man made and cultivated over thousands of years. That isn’t “untouched”
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