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I don't doubt that there were heat deaths in summer (Europe sees them every year as air conditioning is not normal for many countries) but 15% a year is insane
by batiudrami 8y ago
I don't doubt that there were heat deaths in summer (Europe sees them every year as air conditioning is not normal for many countries) but 15% a year is insane - you'd need to be at least an order of magnitude off to have a sustainable population.
- jandrese 8y agoSustaining the city required a continual influx of residents. To be fair, a lot of the deaths were from slaves, but it was something of a deathtrap between the high heat, humidity, hot nights, disease carrying insects, flooding, and hurricanes. Were it not such a valuable port the city would probably have died out.