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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the history books are accurate, northern Africa in the time of Alexander the Great was forested. By the end of the Roman Empire, the forest had been felled to make space for grasses (both cereal crops and pasture land), and desertification was the result.