[ExI] 536 famine

[John Clark]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:18 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> If humanity was facing this problem today what would we do?
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The 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia was the largest since humans first
invented writing, it was about 150 times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St.
Helens eruption. Tambora Killed at least 71,000 people directly and
probably millions more in the "Year Without A Summer" that immediately
followed it and in the decade after that which was the coldest since the
end if the Ice Age.

The Toba eruption 74,000 years ago (also in Indonesia) was at least 100
times as powerful as Tambora, so something like that today would create
worldwide political instability and lots of death.

John K Clark



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