Around 800 AD the medieval warm period began. The result was overpopulation in Scandinavia. they didn’t have the technology to get more food from the land so they sent their excess population overseas for conquering and colonizing.
The same warm period brought drought to central america. The drought didn’t last for two years. It lasted for centuries.
The nobility first sacrificed themselves to bring back the rain.This weakened them so much they could not ward off the Toltecs who in 880 AD came down from central mexico and took a number of cities in Yucatan. from there they raided the rest of the cities of Maya. They brought with them a new practice. They would go to war to capture soldiers and city people, nobles and priests for sacrifice. This became customary throughout maya because the drought did not stop so their gods needed ever more blood. Soon enough—they completely offed themselves.
How could they be so stupid?
But civilization collapse because of climate disasters are actually fairly common. Even more common was that people would overproduce population beyond the limits of their technology. One of the solutions to this was to send the excess population abroad for conquest and colonization. another solution was to kill babies. the ancient caananites and cartheginians were the greatest example of this. they sacrificed children both to appease their gods and to limit their population to the resouceses their technology made available to them.
Consider in 1971 Roe V Wade was ruled on making abortion legal. At the same time US oil production peaked. Two books rocked the academic world. One by the club of rome called the limits of growth. the other by eric erickson called the population bomb. for the first time in Euro American new world history Americans did not believe that there were unlimited natural resources available to them.
The legacy of that is that the USA is that 50 million americans have been aborted —to be replaced by 50 million foreign legal and illegal immigrants. Meanwhile the United States is rapidly moving to a premodern pagan religion—not unlike those of the ancient near east or pre columbian meso america.
The most recent technological revolution will in the next decade or so shock America into to the realization that technology has enabled us to once again move into a condition of unlimited natural resources.
It will be interesting to see what the consequences of that are.
consider that a drought started in California and the southwest USA about 15 years ago. Because of the fabulous foresight of America of 80—50 years ago both the american southwest and california have been able to live off the inheritance of the people that came before.
The same drought hit syria and Israel beginning 15 years ago. The israelis responded by building the world’s cheapest desalination plants. They first send the desalinized water to their cities. Then clean up the water to brown water standards and send the water from their cities to their farms so that today they are freed up the ancient cycle of drought. (This is a miracle of literally biblical proportions—because we hear of drought for the first time when Jacob and his sons have to go down to Egypt because israel is parched by drought.)
The same drought that hit Israel also hit syria. Their farmers lost their livelihoods and moved to their cities and destabilized the country. After that they became refugees to Europe.
So it goes.
Tell your friends that if Hillary is elected millions of Moslems will come to America. We will be in hell forever— which is the legacy of all countries with significant moslem populations.
Pop. Bomb was hustler Paul Ehrlich.
A fun read from back then was Sex vs Civilization by
Elmer Pindell.
Societies are severely harmed when problem makers
outbreed problem solvers.
How different is this than the war on poverty, global warming, Black lives matter, European invitation of Muslims to resettle? Stupid is a human trait.
If they are smart they will call this culture sick, godless and doomed by our own self righteousness and pride.