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To: Taro who wrote (830833)	1/18/2015 10:30:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) of 1577562

"what does this have to do with the fact, that the Europeans carried home syphilis from the New World?" Absolutely nothing. Why did you mention it? The article is entitled "Just when did humans first start affecting the climate", not "When did each hemisphere begin germ warfare". How about keeping it blameless, and say " 50 million inhabitants, or 85-90% of the population of the Americas, died from unknown causes during the 16th Century. Entire cultures collapsed and the old settlements, farms, buildings, monuments, roads and earthen mounds were abandoned to nature. These episodes of abandonment and reforestation are reflected by reductions in CO2levels recorded in ice cores."?

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