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Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate

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par Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.

Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognised that the climate changes over time and that human activity can cause it.

They worried deeply about the impact it would have on us as individuals, and on broader society.

The earliest mention of climate change?

Greek writer Theophrastus…

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