#charles mann

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It's All Over - Charles Mann (Say You Love Me Too, 1973)

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Their number exceeds perhaps three thousand; the smallest not less than twenty feet in height, and one hundred in diameter at the base. Their great number, and the astonishing size of some of them, may be regarded as furnishing with other circumstances evidence of their antiquity: I have been Sometimes induced to think that at the period when those mounds were constructed, there existed on the mississippi, a population as numerous as that which once animated the borders of the nile or of the Euphrates, or of mexico and Peru.

Brackenridge to Thomas Jefferson in 1813

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0269

Founders Online: Henry M. Brackenridge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1813

Henry M. Brackenridge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1813

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Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet - Freakonomics

Season 8, Episode 18 This week on Freakonomics Radio: The environmentalists say we’re doomed if we don’t drastically reduce consumption.

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Do It Again - Charles Mann (Say You Love Me Too, 1973)

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The Supposedly Pristine, Untouched Amazon Rainforest Was Actually Shaped By Humans

Over thousands of years, native people played a strong role in molding the ecology of this vast wilderness

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Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's ...

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52217636

Crops cultivated in Amazonia '10,000 years ago'

Humans have grown crops in areas of the Amazon since the end of the last ice age, a study says.

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