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Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides
On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:06:53 +0100, "Falcon"
wrote: "Culchie Aspirant" wrote in message .. . [...] The building of the Spanish Armada itself deforested Spain and Spain is significantly larger than Ireland and Britain added together. God almighty. Just when I thought things couldn't get sillier, we have a debate in which a 'scientist' actually claims to explain deforestation by blaming hundreds of years of ecological damage on the building a couple of hundred ships. We're all doomed, I tell you. No, you're an ignorant ignorant man...fortunately that fact alone does not mean that we're doomed... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation "The large-scale building of wooden sailing ships by European (coastal) naval owners since the 15th century for exploration, colonization, slave and other trade on the high seas and (often related) naval warfare (the failed invasion of England by the Spanish Armada in 1559 and the battle of Lepanto 1577 are early cases of huge waste of prime timber; each of Nelson's Royal navy war ships at Trafalgar had required 6000 mature oaks) and piracy meant that whole woody regions were over-harvested, as in Spain, where this contributed to the paradoxical weakening of the domestic economy since Columbus' discovery of America made the colonial activities (plundering, mining, cattle, plantations, trade ...) predominant. Tell me Falcon, since you're such a clever *******, where do you think the 162,000* Oaks that Nelson used to make his fleet came from? * For the mathematically challenged i.e. Falcon, (27 x 6000 = 162,000) Furthermore, to nail the point home to all my critics in SCI, on this matter: I note from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation "Djouce Mountain, along with most of the island of Ireland, was systematically clear-felled during the 17th and 18th centuries, in order to obtain wood mainly for shipbuilding.[1]" "Initially, deforestation was practiced by local farmers in order to clear land for crops, but later Ireland was systematically deforested in order to obtain wood for shipbuilding." [1] http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/special_...reland_7.lasso Game, set, match. Nik ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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