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Posted on 06/02/2017 3:43:15 PM PDT by Lorianne
One way to stop countries from polluting the air with lead is to bring back the plague. Research suggests while the infectious and deadly illness known as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and slowed industry, among other side effects, lead disappeared from the air.
Scientists analyzed ice samples from a glacier in the Alps along the Swiss-Italian border, looking specifically for lead that would have been deposited from the atmosphere. The study in the journal GeoHealth found between 1349 and 1353 — when the plague was at its peak — “atmospheric lead dropped to undetectable levels.”
The Black Death was most likely a bacterial infection and the disease was so devastating and widespread, killing millions of people, that it caused economic decline and interfered with metal production, including lead smelting. Although it is famous for tearing through Europe during the Middle Ages, it originated in Asia and caused many deaths on that continent as well before spreading. There were several waves of the plague that led to bursts of infections lasting a few years, with calmer periods in between, and so many people died that the loss of labor reduced trade, agriculture and business.
That plague peak from 1349 and 1353 was the only time in the last 2,000 years or so that lead levels in the atmosphere were “at or approaching natural background” levels, the ice analysis revealed. This shows how long humans have been releasing harmful materials into the air — well before the Industrial Revolution, which was four centuries later — and what it would take to make the lead flow stop.
“When we saw the extent of the decline in lead levels, and only saw it once, during the years of the pandemic, we were intrigued,” lead author Alexander More said in a statement from Harvard University. “In different parts of Europe, the Black Death wiped out as much as half the population. It radically changed society in multiple ways.”
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The ultimate means of saving mother earth
Mass reduction of polluting humans
The dirty little secret of environmentalism
Rarely discussed in the media but fiction writers like Asimov and Tom Clancy, not to mention the movie Kingsman, are written about such bozos.
It’s all natural too.
I can think of a few people I wouldn’t mind contracting it. Not the same ones they’re thinking of, I bet.
Not to worry. The Zuckerbergs, Clintons, and Obamas of the world will be safe in their walled compounds while waiting for the epidemic to burn itself out.
The left wants a massive reduction in the population? We can accommodate them.
Human life means nothing to these evil people.
“Masque of the Red Death”
If I was Obammy, I’d be building a much taller wall then what he has going in at his new $8.1 million smackolas mansion.. or have a robust bunker and tunnel system..
Environazis are nothing more than misanthropes. They would have NO problems eliminating the “useless eaters” causing all this carbon dioxide. They, of course, are exempt from the genocide because they have to be good stewards of the earth.
The left’s dream.
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