La civilisation occidentale est un peu faiblarde ? Rien de tel qu’une bonne petite épidémie : 30 à 50% de la population en moins, ça vous requinque tout ça en quatre ans…
Medieval Britons more resilient to disease following the Black Death - Medical News Today
▻http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/276438.php
“By targeting frail people of all ages, and killing them by the hundreds of thousands within an extremely short period of time, the black death might have represented a strong force of natural selection and removed the weakest individuals on a very broad scale within Europe,” DeWitte writes.
Pour l’économie, y a pas mieux…
A major redistribution of wealth occurred due to the newly competitive employment market, where wages rose and the cost of foods, goods and housing fell.
Et ce n’est pas que le canard de vulgarisation médicale qui nous le dit. La conclusion de l’article (en libre accès) dans PLOS ONE est la suivante :
PLOS ONE : Mortality Risk and Survival in the Aftermath of the Medieval Black Death
▻http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0096513
The results of this study indicate that mortality and survivorship improved in the generations following the Black Death, and that the patterns observed are not simply an artifact of temporal changes in fertility. These results highlight the power that infectious diseases have to shape population-wide patterns of health and demography over both the short- and long-term.