The Great Dying

“The study supports previous research that places the onset date of the Anthropocene, the era of large-scale human influence on Earth’s systems, in the year 1610, when atmospheric CO2 levels began to decrease partly as a result of the Great Dying”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjqnqq/european-genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-in-the-americas-cooled-earths-climate