Forests grow back more quickly than people realize.

There’s an interesting theory regarding when European colonists arrived in the Americas and brought the diseases that killed off many Native Americans.

The theory is that the Native Americans had cleared a great deal of farmland and when many of them died from those European diseases, all the trees grew back & the forests reclaimed their farmland and absorbed so much carbon dioxide that it caused global cooling and the “Little Ice Age” of the 1600s.