• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    In 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere.

    By 1691 there were maybe 15 million Indigenous people left.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      In fact, European settlers butchered such a phenomenal amount of people that it changed the global climate, just let that sink in for a bit

      https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/world/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd/index.html

  • Greenleaf [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Good reminder that I need to read Late Victorian Holocausts.