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Old 07-12-2008, 05:50 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_Heretic View Post
Now understand their practices are specifically suited to that environment. What works one place might well bring disaster elsewhere. Ancient agricultural prctices in Mes'O''potamia turned the whole region into a desert wasteland.
Believe the Amazon is still being slashed and burned, the culture there allegedly failed because of the Pox....
Where the addition of charcoal and bio-matter to the native soil there, kept it from washing away, similar "composting" techniques might be effective in evolving other areas.....
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