Monday, March 20, 2023
Acid Rain a scam?
Apparently the whole thing wasn't real, it was a side effect of the end of slash and burn farming?
According to Krug and other researchers, the reason that many lakes went from hosting aquatic life to becoming relatively sterile was not the advent of acidic precipitation, but rather the way that people had used land in the lake watersheds over the centuries. During eras when land use involved slash-and-burn agriculture, the soil runoff was relatively alkaline, thus allowing the lakes to support life.
Labels: science
