“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
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Climate Change and the Black Death
In 1332, there was flooding in China that killed about 7 million people. That was followed by drought; pest species tend to proliferate because they're called R-strategists. The fleas that caused the Black Death would then jump to rats and spread through Europe. There's another example that actually relates to England as well: Justinian Plague may have originated in Africa.
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