– By Mohamed Hamaludin
In the 100 years after Christopher Columbus landed in what became known as the Americas in 1492, so many indigenous peoples died that it affected the climate.
Ninety percent of the 60 million natives perished from warfare and diseases which accompanied the invaders, taking 212,000 square miles of land out of farming. Trees that subsequently grew absorbed enough carbon dioxide to cool the earth by 0.15 degrees Centigrade, producing a “Little Ice Age” around the globe, University of London scientists Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis reported in 2019. Continue reading →
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change by Thomas E. Skidmore.
In the late 1400s, tiny Portugal with its mere one million inhabitants led the world in navigation, in part due the superior sailing skills its merchants developed on the rough seas of the Atlantic as opposed to the calmer waters of the Mediterranean. Though later bested in navigation by Holland (1.5 million inhabitants), England (3 million inhabitants), and Spain (7 million inhabitants), it claimed the prize of Brazil when one of its explorers sailed off course after setting off for Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. (Portugal had already turned down a request to finance the expedition of Christopher Columbus, who then took his request to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain): Continue reading →
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USA: Central American refugees are a product of past genocide and recent atrocities – By Mohamed Hamaludin
In the 100 years after Christopher Columbus landed in what became known as the Americas in 1492, so many indigenous peoples died that it affected the climate.
Ninety percent of the 60 million natives perished from warfare and diseases which accompanied the invaders, taking 212,000 square miles of land out of farming. Trees that subsequently grew absorbed enough carbon dioxide to cool the earth by 0.15 degrees Centigrade, producing a “Little Ice Age” around the globe, University of London scientists Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis reported in 2019. Continue reading →
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