Cast, Not Carved · claim GEO-C562 · Observation rung · The historical record
From the late 1600s until Leblanc's process (1791), potash demand for glass, soap, and textiles drove documented continent-scale forest destruction across Europe and the Atlantic world — a real historical precedent for civilizations burning forests for a single chemical reagent.
source anchor
Fóti Ch 8, pp ~195–211
independence group: ash-footprint — related extractions in this group are not independent evidence
Evidence
No evidence records attached yet — this claim is held on its source anchor alone: the ledger knows where the proposition is stated and has admitted no observation behind it. A source is not evidence.
an honest empty state
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