25/06/2025
What if mao jd ni rason sa gera sa karon nga panahon para maibanan atong population.
Genghis Khan’s brutal conquests may have done more than reshape empires—they may have cooled the planet. According to a study in The Holocene, the mass killings and destruction carried out by the Mongol Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries led to widespread reforestation, pulling an estimated 700 million tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere. As entire civilizations were wiped out—some losing up to 30% of their population—vast stretches of farmland were abandoned and slowly reclaimed by forest. This return of trees quietly altered the planet’s carbon balance. While other depopulation events like the Black Death and the colonization of the Americas had similar effects, none matched the environmental scale of the Mongol invasions. Though not enough to account for major drops in carbon found in ancient ice cores, the study reveals a haunting irony: one of history’s most destructive forces may have also become, unintentionally, one of its earliest agents of climate mitigation.
