02/23/2026
I understand people forget to use the internet for legit research and instead watch p**n and cat videos. When one just scratches a little at historical Patterns, remember them from Permaculture? Patterns in history reveal this: On vaccines and population growth; more than food supply it turns out medical innovation is the main cause:
“The impact of vaccination on the health of the world’s peoples is hard to exaggerate. With the exception of safe water, no other modality has had such a major effect on mortality reduction and population growth” (Plotkin and Mortimer, 1988).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01526/full
Here’s why vaccines are so crucial to population growth;
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/pandemics-places-and-populations-evidence-black-death
The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history, killing approximately 40% of the region's population between 1347 and 1352. Some regions and cities were spared, but others were severely hit: England, France, Italy and Spain lost between 50% and 60% of their populations in two years. While the Black Death has been extensively studied by historians and social scientists (Benedictow 2005, Voth and Voigtlander 2013), we don't know much about its spatial effects, due to the lack of disaggregated data on mortality. Because they are so rare, we don't know much about the economic effects of any continent-wide pandemics.
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The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347 and 1352, but little is known about its spatial effects. The column uses variation in Plague mortality at the city level to explore the short-run and long-run impacts on city growth. After less than 200 years the impact of Black Death ...