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CNN: White People caused climate change by killing Native Americans
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:11 pm
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When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds.
European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
Carbon levels changed enough to cool the Earth by 1610, researchers found. Columbus arrived in 1492,
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," said UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study's co-authors. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 7:40 pm
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Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:13 pm to NYNolaguy1
Genghis Khan was the best eco-warrior to ever exist. Killing of 5-10% of the global population was the greenest act of violence in history.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:13 pm to NYNolaguy1
What else did the white man do wrong?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:22 pm to NYNolaguy1
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European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America,
I thought that many less people was good for the "climate"?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:25 pm to NYNolaguy1
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The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
So, if they increased the forestation and decreased the CO2 levels(one of the supposed drivers of AGW), how is that CAUSING global warming, if they actually reduced it?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:26 pm to NYNolaguy1
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South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested,
Weren’t those hunter gatherer peoples? That seems like an incredible fact to just omit.
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:27 pm to NYNolaguy1
Pretty sure that Hanibal started it, when he brought all of those shitting elephants into Europe. The methane must have been devastating.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:36 pm to NYNolaguy1
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European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:38 pm to NYNolaguy1
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CNN: White People caused global warming by killing Native Americans
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:41 pm to NYNolaguy1
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European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America,
No. Disease killed 56 million people
Posted on 2/1/19 at 7:37 pm to NYNolaguy1
The vast majority of Natives died indirectly because of the introduction of Old World diseases, to which they had no immunity.
Still far fewer people than were killed by Communism last century.
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56 million
Still far fewer people than were killed by Communism last century.
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