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> Climate change and bad decisions from the last 50 years are starting to bite now. It’ll just get worse. Expect migrations and countries collapsing as millions
by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
> Climate change and bad decisions from the last 50 years are starting to bite now. It’ll just get worse. Expect migrations and countries collapsing as millions of people are pushed to migrate for survival.
For those unfamiliar, climate change and drought are believed to be one of the major causes of the bronze age civilization collapse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse#Drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse#Droug...
- waps 11mo agoIn Iran the cause of the water shortage is at least 99.9% the current government's policies. If global warming accelerated matters it was by days or weeks probably. But you have to admit it would be very funny if a theocracy was forced to abandon it's capital by forces of nature.
- marcosdumay 11mo agoPeople speculate climate change and drought are one of the causes for every major collapse in history. It's even likely, because people keep fighting the collapse until something forces their hands, and that's one recurrent big thing to trigger change. That said, we never had the climate change that strongly on history.