Umm, I don't think that matters here. Plus, why should it matter anyways? There's no way it can detract from the overall look. It's also your AU, but that's beside the point.
Not if his AU is part of something bigger, which appears to be the case.
That doesn't make sense. Strip-mining, sure, but not even that would require you to cut down immense forests. Most coal-mining would be down underground. Now, if you were to say farming, then ok, but even then, it's still not enough.
Don't underestimate the effect of a few thousand years of farming. Or a few decades of aggressive logging for that matter.
Europe used to be more or less covered in forest from the Urals to the Pyrenees.
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