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"Genghis Khan, in fact, may have been not just the greatest warrior but the greatest eco-warrior of all time...the 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance, wiping out entire civilisations, may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere"
Dan Carlin has podcasts called "Hardcore History".
They're incredibly good, highly rated.
He has an entire series called "Wrath of the Khans" and touches on a very similar point about how eventually in history some start to point to *positives* since all the people and emotional ties to the attrocities have faded.
They note that some historians reference how GK cleared out some of the establishment "dead wood" a different argument than carbon footprint lol but oh well.
6 billion people on the planet, always going to be someone spouting something dumb or trying to sell a book.
I have and it's pretty close. I'd say America can beat that number if we count just the last 100 years. Not even mentioning the genocides before that. Stalin does give us a run for our money though
So Hitler and Stalin were just Birkenstock wearing, Granola eating tree huggers.
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