Timothy Birdnow

A recent article from Science Alerts discussed civilizational collapse due to Climate Change.

I left the following response:

You know, the Mound Builder civilization in North America is a prime example of the power of climate change; Cahokia was bigger than London in 900. But the Mound Builders flourished with the Medieval Warming Period, and they collapsed at the end of the that era (and the beginning of the Little Ice Age.) They just couldn't feed a city when it got cold.

Of course climate change caused civilizational collapse in ancient times. They had less control over their environment than we do today. Where we can weather bad weather a less technologically advanced civilization cannot. If anything this argues for MORE industrial civilization, not less.

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