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You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.
Jared Diamond shared a theory in Guns, Germs and Steel that the mini ice age in the sixteenth century was caused by the deaths of 95 percent of the inhabitants of the Americas from diseases following Columbus, leading to widespread re-vegetation that caused climate change. That may have been discredited now.
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I read that theory in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change Great connection to the freezing of the Thames
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Genghis Khan killed 10% of the world's population at the time, causing climate change for a couple of hundred years. Climate hero.
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Jared Diamond … may have been discredited now.
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This is what's known as a category error. Science has a model of which changes in human action would alter the extent of anthropogenic climate change, but how we deal with climate change is a political question. You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.