Whilst listening to the news of today’s onslaught of whatever climate change might be, the Covid-19 pandemic, earthquakes, fires and wars and civil unrest, there is some solace in knowing that it could be worse. If we were living in 536 A.D. I believe our challenges would be too extreme even for the heartiest of us for indeed, that date marked a hundred years of “troubled” times. Famine, floods, volcanic eruptions unparalleled in the written history of man, disease and even a 2 year darkness caused by a mysterious fog that covered much of the earth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6397621/Why-536-AD-worst-year-alive.html