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Genocide and epidemics killed so many indigenous people in the century after Columbus, that the forests that grew on all their abandoned farms absorbed so much CO2 that the resulting cooling plunged the world into the Little Ice Age."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973

America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’

European settlement of the Americas killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate.

Jul 27, 2023 at 3:07amWeb
Show threadDave CarlsonJul 27, 2023
@ebk huh. so that's what disease can do. imagine the climate impact if that happened in north america today, as more area is currently cleared than in pre-columbian times.