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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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But it's not everyone, not always. In Europe we started sustainable forest management in the 18th century, so for at least a couple hundred of years people are acting differently. Why?
Yeah but it started after Europe was basically logged to the ground for wood or agriculture.