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What's the point you are making? It sounds like your saying that there have been droughts in the past that repeatedly uprooted and changed entire cultures live

What's the point you are making? It sounds like your saying that there have been droughts in the past that repeatedly uprooted and changed entire cultures lives and history. Right now we're going to be facing even more severly droughts due to climate change that will very likely impact far more people far more severely. So you're correct: when this happened in the past simply do to natural variation in the region in caused incredible hardship on the residents of the region. Now we're experience this from factors changing the environment on a much larger and more aggressive scale, so it will likely be even more devastating the the past. > hey lived without most of the trappings of what present-day humans think of as civilization, like fire, clothing, or agriculture. While some of the native populations of the region where nomadic groups and likely didn't have agriculture, they all had fire and clothing. In addition there were plenty of agricultural civilizations in the region.

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
> Now we're experience this from factors changing the environment on a much larger and more aggressive scale, so it will likely be even more devastating the the past. The peoples impacted by the decades long droughts in the past did not have access to groundwater and in general terms did not have the capacity to build significant dams. This changes the impact story quite significantly. However, they also didn't practice agriculture on the scale or with the irrigation practices that have become common in the US southwest now, and since it is this that uses 75% of all the water, the more likely change if intense drought continues is the abandonement of the "reclamation" dreams hatched in the 1920s and 1930s after 20-30 of the wettest years in the history of the United States as a nation.
ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Right now we're going to be facing even more severly droughts due to climate change that will very likely impact far more people far more severely. There isn't evidence that global warming is causing more droughts in California. Just because the globe overall is warmer and experiences more droughts, doesn't mean every part of it is warmer and experiences more droughts. Global warming could actually be causing the opposite, and there would be even more severe droughts if less CO2 had been emitted by humans.

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago

> Now we're experience this from factors changing the environment on a much larger and more aggressive scale, so it will likely be even more devastating the the past. The peoples impacted by the decades long droughts in the past did not have access to groundwater and in general terms did not have the capacity to build significant dams. This changes the impact story quite significantly. However, they also didn't practice agriculture on the scale or with the irrigation practices that have become common in the US southwest now, and since it is this that uses 75% of all the water, the more likely change if intense drought continues is the abandonement of the "reclamation" dreams hatched in the 1920s and 1930s after 20-30 of the wettest years in the history of the United States as a nation.

ErikVandeWater 4y ago

> Right now we're going to be facing even more severly droughts due to climate change that will very likely impact far more people far more severely. There isn't evidence that global warming is causing more droughts in California. Just because the globe overall is warmer and experiences more droughts, doesn't mean every part of it is warmer and experiences more droughts. Global warming could actually be causing the opposite, and there would be even more severe droughts if less CO2 had been emitted by humans.