"Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire," Nelsonexplains, "about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.
Julia Pongratz of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology was lead author of the study into Khan's environmental impact.
"It's a common misconception that the human impact on climate began with the large-scale burning of coal and oil in the industrial era," said Pongratz in a statement. "Actually, humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago by changing the vegetation cover of the Earth's landscapes when we cleared forests for agriculture."
The research has already been reported widely, not only on Mother Nature News, but also in newspapers around the world and on conservationist websites like Mongabay and Planetsave, the latter of which hailed Khan as "an environmentalist."
"Anyone who doubts that environmentalists are the most anti-human group in the world, think about this," scathes a comment from another reader. "Their admiration for a first-class murderer ought to tell humans just what their game is – no morality, just reduce carbon and exterminate human life."
Read more:Killing 40 million people? Now, that's green!http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=255473#ixzz1C7DJn9VL
THIS STUDY IS LIKE PUTTING A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE. LET ME PULL ONE OUT OF THE BAG AND MAKE A CLAIM THAT I STUDIED EXTENSIVELY, THAT ENVIRONMENTALIST ARE FULL OF IT.
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