Photo courtesy of: Photo Unit National Monuments Service, Ireland
Photo courtesy of: Photo Unit National Monuments Service, Ireland
Professor of Earth Systems Dynamics?
“What are you doing standing out in the rain with no umbrella?”
“I’m a Professor of Earth Systems Dynamics.”
“Oh.....I thought you were just an idiot.”
That's not to overlook collateral effects, of course, Wider access to good weaponry implies signficant changes in social and political structure, and ultimately political power, as masses of heavy infantry trumped the palace charioteers. The emergence of the modern horse and the rise of real cavalry is also a factor.
Archaeologists and environmental scientists ... have shown that the changes in climate that scientists believed to coincide with the fall in population in fact occurred at least two generations later.
So, clearly, this means that the cratering of the human population brought about climate change.
How do I get a gubmint grant to study this?
This can’t possibly be true. Climate Change causes Everything. Why, just a few months ago it murdered a black yoot in Ferguson, Missouri. So.... see? It causes Everything.
Do you have an opinion on Scott Wolter’s “America Unearthed” episode where he suggested bronze age people came to a Lake Superior island to mine copper?
Bureaucracy keeps everything running smoothly, until something changes.
Then it leads the society into a death-spiral of avoidance.
