What’s more intriguing to me beyond the YDIH is that clearly something wild happened during the Younger Dryas period, impact or not. Regardless of what caused

What’s more intriguing to me beyond the YDIH is that clearly something wild happened during the Younger Dryas period, impact or not. Regardless of what caused the dramatic fluctuations in temperature, wildfires, ocean levels (floods) and megafauna, the fluctuations did occur, and mark the beginning of human civilization as we know it, even though we also know Homo Sapiens existed long before this period. To imagine a period potentially as short as 100 years where the world went from unbearably cold at its warmest to the perpetual summer world we live in now and mega predators simply vanished… if I lived through that period I’d also tell my children to amass resources urgently (and tell stories of the hell world we came from). Who knows how long this insanely human friendly world might last! The idea that our species oldest stories might be about catastrophic climate change is absolutely humbling.