So, in essence we have climate change. Anything we do changes the climate. Big sprawling cities change the climate, new farming methods change the climate, indoor bathrooms change the climate, getting up at 7 in the morning versus changes the climate. In other words, just live and forget all the nonsense about warming or cooling.
Ttuth be told...After little Phil Sheridan burned Virginia to the ground, literally, with the exception of big cities and certain mansions that they used for hospitals and Army Headquarters Etc... He was sent out west by then President Grant to kill off the Buffalo which was the Indian food supply.
What kind of environmental impact would the absence of millions upon millions of Buffalo I have?
Who killed off the passenger pigeon which would blanket it the sky for days. In fact there’s a report that once the passenger pigeons spent two days going in and around town in the midwest, and when they were done and had gone past the town the town was literally white with passenger pigeon droppings. Did the elimination of the passenger pigeon have any impact environmentally?
I think the answer those two questions we have to remember an oft-repeated quote from the late the astrophysicist Carl Sagan when he said that “Extinction is the rule and survival is the exception.”
Earth will abide and in some cases it might have been more pleasant with certain species of animals around or it even could have been on Pleasant with certain species of animals around. Environmentally I think that it might not have had that big of an impact.
But I still loathe Phil Sheridan for what he did.