According
to papers released to support the argument that Global Warming threatens the
planet, Genghis Khan may have done more to cool the planet than anyone else in
history.
The
Great Conqueror was responsible for slaughtering an estimated 40,000,000 people
from 1206 until 1227. The logic the advocates use is that the humans then had cleared
forests to make the land suitable for farming. Trees not only produce oxygen
but absorb carbon dioxide. Furthermore, people and their livestock create huge amounts
of methane gas which they reason causes the earth’s temperature to rise.
Genghis
Khan’s widespread genocide they figure accomplished two things benefiting the
environment. The first was that it eliminated a major and recurring source of
methane. Second, it allowed for the natural reforestation of 22% of the earth’s
land. They theorize that Genghis Khan’s mass murders resulted in a reduction in
700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
The
Mother Nature Network reports that Julia Pongratz and her colleague Ken Caldeira
of the Carnegie
Institute’s Department of Global Ecology espouse these ideas and position.
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