Consider the following statements about environmental concerns in history : In the Indian Ocean region, early French and British scientists pondered over possible linkages of deforestation, the wholesale denuding of the native tree cover and the cycles of water replenishment. In the USA, there were similar fears by the late 19th century. There was hardly any environ-mental concerns in the past about wider global impacts of the way, resources were used. Which of the statements given above is /are correct ?