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You literally didn’t even try to research this hot take, did you? Climate change is not the same as global warming, though related. TL;DR - Warm weather good,
by yunohn 4y ago
You literally didn’t even try to research this hot take, did you? Climate change is not the same as global warming, though related.
TL;DR - Warm weather good, cold weather bad. Plague much worse.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...
> the characteristic warm, wet and stable weather was conducive to economic productivity in an agrarian society
> violent sequence of eruptions triggered what is now called the ‘Late Antique Little Ice Age,’ when much colder temperatures endured for at least 150 years.
> This phase of climate deterioration had decisive effects in Rome’s unravelling. It was also intimately linked to a catastrophe of even greater moment: the outbreak of the first pandemic of bubonic plague.