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Yay, overgrazing.
From the article: "Around 5,000 years ago, orbital changes began to weaken the monsoons, reducing rainfall and initiating desertification."
You're a bot right? Lol I knew there would be a comment like this, or someone saying global warming that clearly didn't read the article
All you had to do was make it to the third paragraph and you would have known this comment was clearly unrelated