PinnedYeongJu Kim·May 3Beyond 1.5°C: The Accelerating Climate Crisis of 2026 and the Decade AheadFueled by El Niño, relentless greenhouse gases, and boiling oceans, the 1.5°C threshold is crumbling. Here’s what happens next.A response icon6A response icon6
PinnedYeongJu Kim·Sep 3Drought, Deforestation, and the 90% Collapse of the Classic Maya WorldRainfall fell up to 70%. One drought lasted 18 years. And the Maya made it worse themselves.A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedYeongJu Kim·May 21The 12.5-Trillion Swarm: How Humanity Accidentally Erased the Rocky Mountain LocustA 27-million-ton swarm of insects once blotted out the North American sun. Decades later, they were completely extinct. Here’s the true…A response icon8A response icon8
YeongJu Kim·5d agoChina 1906–07: The Great Flood and Famine That Helped Topple the Qing DynastyFrom the autumn of 1906 to the spring of 1907, a flood-driven famine tore through northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, two provinces along…
YeongJu Kim·Oct 21876: The Same El Niño That Starved China Also Forced Korea’s Doors OpenWhile millions starved in China and Korea, the West was gripped by its own economic catastrophe: the Long Depression.
YeongJu Kim·Oct 2China 1877: The Super El Niño That Killed 13 Million People in Two YearsA record-breaking El Niño collapsed China’s monsoon and killed up to 13 million people in just two provinces.
YeongJu Kim·Oct 1Earth Blew Past 1.5°C in 2024. Now a Record-Shattering El Niño Is Brewing for 2027South Korea’s seas are warming twice as fast as the global average, and a “super El Niño” hasn’t even peaked yet.
YeongJu Kim·Sep 301899–1902: When Famine, War, and Empire Killed Millions Across the GlobeFrom Brazilian death camps to Ethiopian cattle plague, how colonialism weaponized a climate crisis worldwide.
YeongJu Kim·Sep 30The Victorian Holocaust: How Free-Market Ideology Killed 60 Million PeopleA historian’s term for how laissez-faire economics turned an El Niño drought into a 60-million-death catastrophe.A response icon1A response icon1
YeongJu Kim·Sep 291845: How a Single Fungus and British Policy Starved Ireland to DeathA microscopic pathogen combined with colonial land policy to kill a million people and drive two million more to flee.
