I was looking through some old vacation pictures and came across this one. It sure gives a perspective on how big these trees are.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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This is a single study, and it states that "that perhaps a fifth of the Amazon basin, in the south, may have been savannah until the shift, with forests covering the rest". So it's not that the forest was all farmland, there was farmland close to the forest and it grew to cover it. This is very different from what you're claiming.
And again, it's not possible for such biodiversity to develop in such a short amount of time.
My claim is that humanity made the Amazon rainforest what it is today. I stand by that, and my claim grows stronger with each new ancient city discovered under the trees.
Yeah, I disagree. We didn't play an active part in doing this, we played a passive one by not fucking it up. I'm also not responsible for a mountain just because I don't dig it up.
Even if you were right, your own study says that we'd at most be responsible for 1/5th.