Around 150 years ago, our planet experienced one of the most extreme climatic episodes ever recorded. The natural phenomenon known as El Niño, an oscillation in Pacific Ocean temperatures that influences the global climate, reached an extraordinary intensity around 1877–1878. This event unleashed prolonged droughts, relentless heatwaves and severe crop failures, generating what many scientists consider one of the worst human climate crises in history.
The impact was so profound that it is estimated that tens of millions of people worldwide, between 30 and 60 million, died, representing around 3-4% of the global population at the time. Beyond deaths directly caused by starvation, societies suffered economic collapse,…
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