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Seventy four thousand years ago, give or take a few millennia, Homo sapiens had a very bad day, perhaps the worst day that we’ve ever experienced. On what is now the Indonesial Island of Sumatra, a mountain called Toba exploded -- though the word doesn’t do justice to the act of sheer geographical violence perpetrated that day. What happened to Toba was a destruction that scientists would eventually coin a term for volcanic disasters of its scale: supereruption. But the eruption was only the beginning. Toba’s aftereffects dimmed the sun and draped a volcanic winter around the world. It might have brought our species closer to the brink of extinction than ever or since. At a moment when Homo sapiens was far from the world-dominating force we are today, Toba was our ultimate trial. It was also a warning -- the most dangerous natural existential risk we face comes not from the skies above, but from the ground beneath our feet. ~ Excerpt “End Times” Author - Bryan Welsh
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