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What if it was actually HUMANS who created the Amazon Jungle? Years ago I was reading about ancient earthworks, flood channels, and signs of civilization on the floor of the Amazon Jungle being discovered by Lidar and ground penetrating radar and so on. It was one of those buried, "never seen again", down the memory hole little articles. Well, today an article came up for me on Facebook from Discover about how, 10,000 years ago, Ancient Humans domesticated plants in Bolivia and grew islands of trees in a sea of grassland/savannah, south of the Amazon, in Bolivia. So this raises a question for me, some "high octane speculation" as conspiracy researcher Joseph P. Farrell puts it. What if the Amazon was originally mostly grassland or savannah and the reason why it is so big today is because ancient Humans planted it? This would certainly be a fly in the ointment of the DeGrowthers' narrative of "Human Activity being detrimental to Mother Nature" and the "noble savages" myth of "small scale back-to-monkey" communities living off of a naturally-produced rainforest. This is one of those rare articles coming from the mainstream Scientism community that says humans actually CREATED biodiversity. Like Winston, filing away news clippings in 1984, we could use such rare glimpses of optimism and pro-humanism.

ARTICLE: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/10-800-years-ago-early-humans-planted-forest-islands-in-amazonias-grasslands?utm_campaign=organicsocial&utm_content=%F0%9F%94%84from_the_archive%3A_resear&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

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