It was globally cooler then, so the Indians clearing land kept needed CO^2 in the atmosphere to keep people and crops from freezing to death.
White Man clearing is being done when it is Anthropogenically Globally Warmer, and the trees are needed to extract excess CO^2 from the atmosphere to keep people and crops and the entire earth from thriving burning up.
How do I know? Saint Gore sells me so! ALL PRAISES TO THE HOLY AL!
