Well, a single year's worth of climate change accelerated a plague which halved the populations of the pre-Islamic Iranian Empire and Christian Europe. And led to the Old World version of contemporary Euro-American society where tiny groups of people took over larger societies halved by plague and built new syncretic civilizations on top of them.
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Date: 2009-12-21 03:06 pm (UTC)Longer-term stuff...yikes.