23rd November 2014, 07:45 PM
Quote:All the 'primary' woodland around here got cleared around 500-400BC and stayed chopped down
Quote:Which is hardly an example of an optimum climatic forest although I don't imagine that's what the Romans found either.
but what the romans did is burn "any" wood for pot and brick and winter heating and general fast food cooking and presumably not manage wood that should have been conserved for construction...... basically they are the equivalent of fossil fuel burners and the Saxons are the exponents of what might be renewable resources. Its all very James lovelock Gaia end of the cretaceous, the forams and ostracods poisoned their own atmosphere by halving the co2 concentrations greenhouse gas concentrations which allowed their oxygen loving slaves the mammals to come to the fore on a landscape created by dinosaurs and then fuller with oxygen.
What cleared the wood cerca 500-400BC ?
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist