• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    13 hours ago

    Crops started failing right before The Black Death because people still didn’t know about fertilizers and farming simply depleted the soil. If not for the plague Europe would see famine because its farming was… unsustainable.

    The land use practiced by neolithic people is for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehesa Those ecosystem exist since thousands of years because they are… sustainable.