Current Events > CNN comforts liberals that 2018 isn't worst year in human history

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/20/health/worst-year-536-scli-intl/index.html

team of historians and scientists has identified A.D. 536 as the beginning of a terrible sequence of events for humankind.

A massive volcanic eruption spewed a huge cloud of ash that shrouded the Northern Hemisphere in darkness and caused a drop in temperatures that led to crop failure and starvation, said co-lead study author Professor Christopher Loveluck of the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Then the misery was compounded in A.D. 542 as cold and hungry populations in the eastern Roman Empire were struck by the bubonic plague.

The eruption and the 542 plague outbreak caused economic stagnation in Europe, which lasted more than 30 years until 575, when there were early signs of recovery, Loveluck said.

We might think that we have a lot to complain about in 2018, but at least we're not fighting off the plague as we shiver under a cloud of volcanic ash that blocks out the sun.

Does this comfort you?
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As a liberal, I didn't find 2018 to be terrible tbh
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2018 was way better than 2016. Although even now, 2016 still comes around to take our favorite celebrities.
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Every year is the worst year in this cry first world. Its like nobody ever grew up

Northern people have been in the good times since the natural gas furnace and electricity have been invented
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terrible things happened in 2018, but i didn't consider the year the worst in history just because of it

them first world problems...
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