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To: goldworldnet who wrote (345289)	8/1/2007 4:54:49 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1578937

"I started to say that maybe things just aren't as simple as they once were and then I found this." And it follows with your earlier thesis. As population density goes up, more regulation is needed to make it livable. While not mentioned in this timeline directly, it is implied. Note the use of coal started in Britain by 1300. That is because the forests had been decimated, there were the coppice laws which regulated how trees were to be cut for fires to maximize production. And coal was an alternative. However, the plague came a few years later and suddenly the coppice laws were moot and coal consumption dropped off a cliff because the population density dropped so much there was a lot less pressure on the forests.