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While we often see these impacts, particularly as they spread across different agricultural regions, as having beneficial results for societies. The , the reality is much more mixed. First, One major result of domesticated agriculture is that the environment has been greatly sufferedaltered, to the point where scientists today call the period after plant domestication as the Anthropocene, or when human societies began to have major impact on the plant. Plant domestication leads to the need for clearing more land, including burning of fields to fertilize them and clear them. This, already after 8000 beginning by 10,000 years before present, began to have an impact on societies and even likely global temperaturetemperatures through the release of carbon dioxide and methane. While we think global warming has been a modern effect of industry, agriculture arguably helped to create the first significant wave of human-induced climate changeor at least increased emissions into the atmosphere.<ref>For more on environmental impact of agriculture and plant domestication, see: Balter, M. (2013). Archaeologists Say the “Anthropocene” Is Here--But It Began Long Ago. <i>Science</i>, 340(6130), 261–262. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.340.6130.261 </ref>