15th century colonisation and killings of Americas cooled the Earth's climate

[ignhelper]

https://bbc.in/2UwTqls

Welp, guess its time for spanish inquisition round 2 in the name of cooling the environment then

[swebonny]

Kill all anti-vax and climate change deniers.

[ViralHatred]

So the tl;dr was "let more trees grow"?

Which I'm pretty sure no longer works because many places are more heavily forested than they have been in human history and the fossil fuel usage of the world has put out more CO2 than trees can take down.

What we need is a rapid change to combined sustainable and renewable energy. And in the immediate future nuclear is a good middle ground since modern reactor designs are much more efficient and produce much less waste, some such as the molten salt reactor can even recycle the waste we already have.

And since all the global super powers seem to be warming up their nuclear missile development, what better time to build some new nuclear power stations??

[Danz_]

War, huh, yeah.
What is it good for?
Atmospheric cooling.
Say it again, y'all!

[Mono]

Maybe we should give a nuclear winter a try? That ought to cool things down.

[ZombieDawgs]

Don't give nationalists another reason to be proud of genocide.

[Malcolm Xbox]

Don't worry about it, they're digging their own graves rather quickly.

[GordonZombie]

Ah, the solution is at hand. We just have to purge the Americas of their current inhabit- oh wait some of them are already killing each other.

[eldomtom2]

Bit misleading - not the depopulation that caused the cooling, but the abandonment and rewilding of agricultural land that resulted from it.

[Alice]

Unfortunately they're also digging graves for the rest of us at the same time though.

[Slendermang]

Europe has been recovering A LOT of its Woodland, unfortunately other places such as South America are doing a lot more work at chopping them down.

A cool map to see the changes:

https://preview.redd.it/q9pkjokxfky11.gif?width=642&s=24cc082ea05d87d995ab2305761439d3be36337f

[GHOST!!!!]

If I squint my eyes just right, I still can't see the fucking difference between Grassland, Forest and Settlement on this, I just see a darker colour moving about.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

the amazon is still being constantly deforested

[Amber902]

IIRC the mongol conquests lowered humanities carbon output significantly.

[Swilly]

The issue is were planting more trees but the biggest and most important carbon sink on land for the world, the Amazon Rainforest, is getting absolutely destroyed for farmland that will be useless.