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Pre-industrial civilizations frequently engaged in unsustainable environmental practices

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Historical and scholarly evidence shows that pre-industrial societies frequently engaged in activities like deforestation, landscape burning, and resource exploitation that caused widespread environmental degradation.

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Wikipedia: Holocene extinction

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Book: Critical Environmental Politics

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Explicitly states that pre-industrial or pre-modern capitalist societies engaged in practices resulting in widespread environmental degradation.

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first checked01 Aug 2026

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