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Deforesting the Earth
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Deforesting the Earth (2002) (edit title/settings)

From Prehistory to Global Crisis

by Michael Williams (Author) (edit contributors)

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Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests are among the most important ways humans have transformed the global environment. With the onset of industrialization and colonization... read more

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If ever there was a beginning to the modern forest it was at the end of the Ice Age just over 10,000 years ago when the great sheets of ice that covered the Northern Hemisphere began to melt and retreat.

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  1. Michael Williams (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
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Page Count: 689

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