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From the SAME news company (The Guardian)-
2011: "Why Genghis Khan was good for the planet. His murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people. Genghis Khan, in fact, may have been not just the greatest warrior but the greatest eco-warrior of all time, according to a study by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Energy. It has concluded that the 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance, laying waste to vast swaths of territory and wiping out entire civilisations en route, may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere – roughly the quantity of carbon dioxide generated in a year through global petrol consumption – by allowing previously populated and cultivated land to return to carbon-absorbing forest."
(Genghis Khan conquered most of Asia and Europe, creating the Mongol Empire, and killing tens of millions in his colonization of foreign lands)
https://amp.theguardian.com/theguar...is-khan-eco-warrior?__twitter_impression=true
2019: "European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.
Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492.
This “large-scale depopulation” resulted in vast tracts of agricultural land being left untended, researchers say, allowing the land to become overgrown with trees and other new vegetation."
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ation-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change
Truly bizarre...a journalist heaps praise on a genocidal dictator for wiping out 40 million people, as it 'cleansed' the planet of people. No mention of European colonizers being 'eco-warriors' in the 2019 article though. How flippant some are to analyze genocide from the perspective of 'saving the environment'.
2011: "Why Genghis Khan was good for the planet. His murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people. Genghis Khan, in fact, may have been not just the greatest warrior but the greatest eco-warrior of all time, according to a study by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Energy. It has concluded that the 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance, laying waste to vast swaths of territory and wiping out entire civilisations en route, may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere – roughly the quantity of carbon dioxide generated in a year through global petrol consumption – by allowing previously populated and cultivated land to return to carbon-absorbing forest."
(Genghis Khan conquered most of Asia and Europe, creating the Mongol Empire, and killing tens of millions in his colonization of foreign lands)
https://amp.theguardian.com/theguar...is-khan-eco-warrior?__twitter_impression=true
2019: "European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.
Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492.
This “large-scale depopulation” resulted in vast tracts of agricultural land being left untended, researchers say, allowing the land to become overgrown with trees and other new vegetation."
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ation-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change
Truly bizarre...a journalist heaps praise on a genocidal dictator for wiping out 40 million people, as it 'cleansed' the planet of people. No mention of European colonizers being 'eco-warriors' in the 2019 article though. How flippant some are to analyze genocide from the perspective of 'saving the environment'.
