I remember listening to that and it really struck me how much a single species could change an environment. I wonder how many ecosystems we praise as natural are actually warped by human introduction of species in the last few thousand millennia.
In "Fall of civilizations" series [0] there is somewhere a mention of caravans thousands of camels long, thousands years ago, going through north africa. Imagining this one has to wonder how populous their goat herds were in that time and how much their grazing helped to degrade the pre-sahara/sahel ecosystems.
Maybe we should try to reforest those areas again.
dexwiz|3 years ago
myshpa|3 years ago
Maybe we should try to reforest those areas again.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast/playlis... - highly recommended
PicassoCTs|3 years ago