Matthew Blome
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support your thesis? Your evidence, sparse as it is, seems to indicate that people cleared forests for economic reasons, specifically agriculture or mobility. There is nothing to support, other than a few ideas of conjecture, that this was a generally held idea, promoted widely or followed by a broad base for the purpose of climate change. The interests of settlers being relatively short term economic and physical survival, it is doubtful they pursued such a long term objective of climate change. There is far more evidence that people such Jefferson thought that the New World was ideal for a widespread agricultural society. He wrote about it often. A few unconnected conjectural quotes do not make a compelling argument.

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