reading up on the Little Ice Age is low-key terrifyingwhen you realize the main cultural response was violent scapegoating & witch trialsand today we've barely started to see the impact of #climatechangeand already we're doing fascism & violent scapegoatinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
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The „little ice age“ was 1450~1500 due to a vulcano eruption in indonesia and therefore the grain did not ripe anymore in central europe. That is what hunger is about: my father told me as a kid about this some 500 years later…
"Several causes have been proposed: cyclical lows in solar radiation, heightened volcanic activity, changes in the ocean circulation, variations in Earth's orbit and axial tilt (orbital forcing), inherent variability in global climate, and decreases in the human population (such as from the massacres by Genghis Khan, the Black Death and the epidemics emerging in the Americas upon European contact[12][13]). "