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Unlike modern day climate change, however, the Mongol invasion actually cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history's cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card? The reality may be a bit difficult for today's environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire with a high body count.
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.
In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.
Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended "green" consequences of his invasions, Pongratz hopes that her research can lead to land-use changes that someday might alter how future historians rate our environmental impact.
Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? | MNN - Mother Nature Network
And what does that mean? "Land use?" So, let's reforest fields? Screw 40 million who need to eat?
This really exposes the mind set of the true environmentalist. They want to make you think they are "good people." They want to "save the planet."
But save it at whose expsense? YOURS!
This really exposes why we need to get these people out of power and never let them near anything close to power again.
Because their entire agenda isn't to make the planet better for you. It's to make the planet "better" at YOUR expense!
YOU are just a carbon footprint to them.