We did not invent anything, nor the destruction of nature or its defense. Since Ancient times, as was notably shown by J. Donald Hughes in Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans (2014, not translated into French), the forests of the countries around the mediterranean are operated in a manner so intensive, in particular to provide the wood of the ships, they disappear in part. Gold, combined with the uncontrolled grazing of goats and sheep on the land, often mountainous, deforestation promotes soil erosion and reduced to desert state of beautiful pa…
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