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(1/2)

Ah, finally we've found something we disagree on. 😉

For starters, depending on cultural and commercial exchanges of people's, epidemics seem to have taken weeks or months to spread during the first wave.

In fact, the #TheGreatDying did start in the period you mentioned, 1520. The disease that ended the empire of the #Mexicas was...

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(18/n)

...in particular in the present-day "developed" world.

And yet another thought:

Neither the biggest death bubble (WWII) im human history, nor any of the pandemics of the 20th and 21st century seems to have been able to cause a similar small "Ice Age" as did #TheGreatDying in...

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(16/n)

...we see from this study is 👉the scale of what’s required [to battle anthropogenic #ClimateChange], because #theGreatDying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested👈 and that gave us only a few parts per million."

Picture this:

"Indigenous...

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(15/n)

...the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. 👉#TheGreatDying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth system👈 in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.”

And what...

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...👉if #TheGreatDying as part of the European conquest of the Americas were to be counted as but ONE conflict, the c. 54m casualties of the indigenous population would already be the 2nd biggest death bubble of humanity ever.👈

With...

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(8/n)

...mere couple of thousands European invaders-turned-#colonizers at some point.

Let's put things in perspective first:

But this is NOT, what I originally said would blow your mind, it is rather the breathtaking impact on Earth itself that #TheGreatDying had.

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...but IMO, the largest factor was not anthropogenic this time round. The root cause was the same as that of the #alien invaders in #TheWarOfTheWorlds:

The viruses of smallpox, cholera, and the plague.

"#TheGreatDying...

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