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Agriculture in general significantly reduced the amount of carbon trapped in vegetation. One of the causes of the Little Ice Age is often proposed to be the red
by Tuna-Fish 2y ago
Agriculture in general significantly reduced the amount of carbon trapped in vegetation. One of the causes of the Little Ice Age is often proposed to be the reduction of human population (and correspondingly, land area under cultivation) and reforestation after the Black Death, Mongol invasions, and the Columbian Exchange.
- yellowapple 2y agoThe cooling associated with the Little Ice Age started in the 13th Century (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#Dating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#Dating), though, while the Black Death was in the 14th.