TheCrusader
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It doesn't take much to destroy a civilization, and unique changes to the environment which can be man-caused can certainly cause collapse, almost always with regard to food production. The Pre-classic Maya collapsed, as it is now known, because deforestation allowed clay to erode into and fill swamps that were dredged for their productive fertilizing soils.
Once those soils were buried 2 to 3 meters deep, the Pre-Classic Maya were no longer able to sustain the productivity of their agriculture.
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The World now faces a similar problem due to Global Warming, whatever the causes of Global Warming, it is obvious the world is warming. Snow lines across the globe move upward, where snow fall might have been around 6,000 feet somewhere before, now it is 8,000 feet for instance.
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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Evidence
NASA has presented a large amount of evidence that the Globe is warming, such as decreased total snow cover in the last 50 years during winter, such as rising ocean temperatures, such as rising ocean acidity (warmer oceans can absorb more bicarbonate into aqueous solution rather than precipitate such as calcium carbonate sediments).
The major point if you watch the El Mirador video is that ultimately a civilization is very fragile, and is very dependent upon the environment that gave rise to it.
What happens when the World food production drops by 25%?
Let's look at a structural fire analogy. When 25% of the people inside the fire area are burning, they violently press against the uninjured otherwise calm people in the crowd, causing them to get stuck in small spaces (door ways for instance) or to fall over and trip others and cause general obstacles to exit.
The idea that people will orderly exit a burning building, while they are on fire, is absurd.
Example of hundreds of people stuck in a 10 foot wide door way leading to a parking lot, seeing freedom but burning alive.
That doorway you see entirely engulfed in flames was stuffed full of about 20 people stuck in the door, no matter how hard people pulled on them they couldn't wedge them free. More than 100 people in the Station Fire died within 10 feet of the doorway.
The 20 something people didn't get stuck in the door because the fire was on their heels, they were stuck in there for about 3 or 4 minutes, before the fire even got close to them because people way way in the interior who were actually on fire, were pressing hard and violently against the mass of people trying to escape.
Why?
Because burning people don't die quietly.
What's the point? What happens when global food supply declines by 25%? You think the people left to starve will go quietly? Or do you think they'll take their tanks, their WMDs, their nuclear missiles, their biological weapons, and start using them on the people trying to "get to safety"?
Republicans are too stupid to understand these concepts.
Once those soils were buried 2 to 3 meters deep, the Pre-Classic Maya were no longer able to sustain the productivity of their agriculture.
Source:
The World now faces a similar problem due to Global Warming, whatever the causes of Global Warming, it is obvious the world is warming. Snow lines across the globe move upward, where snow fall might have been around 6,000 feet somewhere before, now it is 8,000 feet for instance.
Source:
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Evidence
NASA has presented a large amount of evidence that the Globe is warming, such as decreased total snow cover in the last 50 years during winter, such as rising ocean temperatures, such as rising ocean acidity (warmer oceans can absorb more bicarbonate into aqueous solution rather than precipitate such as calcium carbonate sediments).
The major point if you watch the El Mirador video is that ultimately a civilization is very fragile, and is very dependent upon the environment that gave rise to it.
What happens when the World food production drops by 25%?
Let's look at a structural fire analogy. When 25% of the people inside the fire area are burning, they violently press against the uninjured otherwise calm people in the crowd, causing them to get stuck in small spaces (door ways for instance) or to fall over and trip others and cause general obstacles to exit.
The idea that people will orderly exit a burning building, while they are on fire, is absurd.
Example of hundreds of people stuck in a 10 foot wide door way leading to a parking lot, seeing freedom but burning alive.
That doorway you see entirely engulfed in flames was stuffed full of about 20 people stuck in the door, no matter how hard people pulled on them they couldn't wedge them free. More than 100 people in the Station Fire died within 10 feet of the doorway.
The 20 something people didn't get stuck in the door because the fire was on their heels, they were stuck in there for about 3 or 4 minutes, before the fire even got close to them because people way way in the interior who were actually on fire, were pressing hard and violently against the mass of people trying to escape.
Why?
Because burning people don't die quietly.
What's the point? What happens when global food supply declines by 25%? You think the people left to starve will go quietly? Or do you think they'll take their tanks, their WMDs, their nuclear missiles, their biological weapons, and start using them on the people trying to "get to safety"?
Republicans are too stupid to understand these concepts.
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