Scientists have claimed that the infamous leader Genghis Khan and his Mongolian army should also be considered a legendary “eco warrior,” as his conquests and invasions helped the environment, apparently.
Recently an article by The Guardian published in 2011 has recirculated titled, “Why Genghis Khan was good for the planet.”
The author Jon Henley said, “His murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people, […] But boy, was Genghis green.”
The short article cites a study published by the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Energy that explains why Khan was “the greatest eco-warrior of all time.” The study has since been removed from the website, but has been archived on the Wayback Machine. The press release is as follows:
Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes had an impact on the global carbon cycle as big as today’s annual demand for gasoline. The Black Death, on the other hand, came and went too quickly for it to cause much of a blip in the global carbon budget. Dwarfing both of these events, however, has been the historical trend towards increasing deforestation, which over centuries has released vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as crop and pasture lands expanded to feed growing human populations. Even Genghis Khan couldn’t stop it for long.
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