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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive
This could still happen. Hell, we cant even deal with forest fires in California, and snow in New York, or turds in San Francisco.
No comment on how royalty felt when their ocean front property got flooded!
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
This could still happen. Hell, we cant even deal with forest fires in California, and snow in New York, or turds in San Francisco.
No comment on how royalty felt when their ocean front property got flooded!