Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The History of the Americas
There is a dip in the sea of two record about 16 ten. The reason being that christopher columbus rediscovered the americas. And by doing that, what they did wil start to exchange organisms from the new world and the old world. This swapping of organisms also brought over small pox, measles and typhus - which killed 50 million people. So we now know that in the past, there were a lot more of us than we were expecting. We could never reverse hit. Can you imagine trying to actually pick up all the earth ones geting back to europe? It just wouldn't happen.
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