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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Climate change hero: Genghis Kahn

Mother Nature Network: "Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, 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."

Not sure why they left out Stalin and Mao.

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