Climate chaos lessons on survival from our ancestors
"Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we fac...
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2021
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Inhaltsangabe:
- A frozen world (c. 30,000 to c. 15,000 years ago)
- After the ice (before 15,000 years ago to c. 6000 BCE.)
- Megadrought (c. 5500 BC to 651 CE)
- Nile and Indus (3100 to c. 1700 BCE)
- The fall of Rome (c. 200 BCE to the Eighth Century CE)
- The Maya transformation (c. 1000 BCE to the Fifteenth Century CE)
- Gods and El Niños (c. 3000 BCE to the Fifteenth Century CE)
- Chaco and Cahokia (c. 800 to 1350 CE)
- The disappeared megacity (802-1430 CE)
- Africa's reach (First Century BC to 1450 CE)
- A warm snap (536 to 1216 CE)
- "New Andalusia" and beyond (1513 CE to Today)
- The ice returns (c. 1321 to 1800 CE)
- Monstrous eruptions (1808 to 1988 CE)
- Back to the future (Today and tomorrow)