Reasons Why Norse Greenland Societal Collapse

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In Norse Greenland the societal collapse because they don't take care or preserve the amount of trees they cut down, and because they don't search or find a way to preserve. Also, because the cold climate was killing all the crops, each time it was getting colder and the crops cannot survive with that climate, so they don't have food to feed the people.
Environmental Damage, destroy the environment around us. Climate change kills the crops, animals and people. Hostile Neighbors, forces death and evacuation. Friendly Neighbours-Trade good sense of a needed resources dies out. And Cultural Response people ignored the changes around them.
I want to prove the reasons why society collapses. In my civilization the deforestation collapsed because

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