Re:America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
by wutbrodo on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:46PM
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The article isn't even focusing on that, AFAICT.
> It's the UCL group's estimate that 60 million people were living across the Americas at the end of the 15th Century (about 10% of the world's total population), and that this was reduced to just five or six million within a hundred years.
The only thing that was that early, that rapid, and that devastating was the diseases introduced by early European visitors that preceded their colonization by decades and leagues.
> It's the UCL group's estimate that 60 million people were living across the Americas at the end of the 15th Century (about 10% of the world's total population), and that this was reduced to just five or six million within a hundred years.
The only thing that was that early, that rapid, and that devastating was the diseases introduced by early European visitors that preceded their colonization by decades and leagues.