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1. The plague, while probably exacerbated, was not caused by urbanization.

2. With the exception of up until modern times, farming, like many other major changes in human habitation, never threatened our existence on this planet.

3. Fire is dangerous, but the benefits vastly outweighed the dangers, and also did not permanently, in the chronological perspective of human beings, threaten our ecosystem.




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