“Even the mighty builders of the ancient pyramids more than 4,000 years ago fell victim when they were unable to respond to a changing climate,”
So, in order to compensate for our technical deficits in properly dealing with climate change, we’ll just build these structures. Gimme a break
Exactamundo. Building the pyramids was the ancient Egyptian stimulus plan. By creating hundreds of thousands of government jobs, leaders hoped to jumpstart an economy slowed by climate change.
The Giza (and Abu Roash) pyramids antedate this drought by a few hundred years, that is, the writer of the article refers to the 4th dynasty, which transitioned into the short 5th and 6th dynasties, and the latter deteriorated into the 1st Intermediate Period. Menkaure (grandson of Khufu, and builder of the third and smallest of the larger Giza pyramids) was succeeded by his own son, but that pharaoh built a mastaba, and nowhere near Giza.