bogarde73 wrote on Jan 7
th, 2018 at 11:13am:
There have been many more periods of climate change before in the planet's history. I was reading about one such this morning that likely destroyed the Indus valley civilisation millennia ago.
The good news is we are infinitely better placed to manage such crises now than in earlier periods.
That is, as long as the culture warriors don't manage to deprive us of a mix of energy sources.
Not just the Indus River folk, look at what happened at the end of the bronze age around the mediterranean, which was within a hundred or so years of the Indus civilisation collapsing. Not something I would look forward to, every civilisation collapsing at around the same time, well... within a couple of generations.
From Ugarit in the Levanvt
Quote:The last Bronze Age king of Ugarit, Ammurapi (circa 1215 to 1180 BC), was a contemporary of the Hittite king Suppiluliuma II. The exact dates of his reign are unknown. However, a letter[4] by the king is preserved, in which Ammurapi stresses the seriousness of the crisis faced by many Near Eastern states from invasion by the advancing Sea Peoples. Ammurapi pleads for assistance from the king of Alashiya, highlighting the desperate situation Ugarit faced:
My father, behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops and chariots(?) are in the Land of Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka? ... Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that came here inflicted much damage upon us.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit Hattusa(Hittites)
Quote:Then there were the Mycenaean Greeks and Egyptians, the Mycenaeans went down too, the Egyptians only barely manged to hang in there and were never what they were before again. I'd guess the Nile saved them but they also had their woes.
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