[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

They should have paid the Hittite regime more in taxes to combat climate change.

[Red Badger]

Climate Change from those huge chariots spewing horse manure all over the Levant, no doubt.................

[Quentin Quarantino]

Human caused Global Warm seems to have been a problem for a long time now. Obviously the White race of Atlanteans are the culprits. Or maybe it was the Caucasians from the Caucusus.

[jerod]

Our global economy has pretty much eliminated our worries about drought. If it’s dry in one place, it’s likely wet in another... So our food supply is pretty secure. We throw out food on a regular basis... That’s how food rich western countries have become.

Starvation still occurs, but only in countries that can’t afford to become part of the global economy. Most of them of course, are in Africa.

[Beowulf9]

and isn’t this the same region that was just hit with all these earthquakes?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1623515951244398593

[sphinx]

Here is a lovely talk on the period by Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University, who has spent a lot of his career in the field, digging. So: he is a working archeologist as well as a prominent academic. He is the author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.

Before anyone jumps in with the snark that the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations took place over an extended period, know that Cline discusses that in his talk with some humorous asides about the arbitrariness of picking a title.

Cline went on the talk circuit after his talk was published. There are several versions of this talk on YouTube, with some of them being adjusted for various audiences. This was the first one I watched, and I still am partial to it. Cline teaches at GW and this was for a general audience in Bethesda, MD, so this is for a lay audience, not academic specialists.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

[Savage Beast]

Maybe we’d all better start doing a rain dance.

[FarCenter]

Volcanic eruptions reduce global rainfall

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200527105036.htm

[Bob434]

Did camel farts cause it?

[DannyTN]

This is why we need to build 5 more great lakes.

[ckilmer]

This was part of what’s now known as the bronze age collapse about 1200 bc.

three causes have been identified.
1.)drought
2.)earthquakes
3.)invasions of the sea peoples. These were from various tribes around the medeterranian including the cretes and greeks and phoencians. Its now thought that that the impetus group and largest among them were from the Po valley in northern Italy.