Farming has been impacting the environment for 3,000 years.
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Earlier this year, scientists suggested that the Anthropocene — the current geological age — is viewed as the period in which human activity has been the dominant influence on Earth’s climate and the environment, and that it began about 1950. “While modern rates and scales of anthropogenic global change are far greater than those of the deep past, the long-term cumulative changes wrought by early food producers are greater than many realize,” said Andrea Kay, study author at of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and The University of Queensland, a lead author on the study.
In order to farm the land, forests were cleared for planting. Domesticating and herding animals also required land clearing. In the case of these activities, it wasn’t the pace that changed the land, but the widespread activity, the researchers said. Research like this can lay the foundation for understanding how it happens and ways to mitigate the harmful changes, said another researcher on the team, Alison Crowther, also of The University of Queensland.
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