Re:Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?
by jermy on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:26AM
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A friend wrote a blog post at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/hannah-griffiths/isis-climat... whilst in Iraq, which refers to the Columbia University paper at http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.full
It's very much a picture of the drought causing people to move to overstretched towns and cities to look for work, and rising discontent with their government as a result. In some areas, mercenary work might be the only paid work available.
Although he may spin it a little further than it is worth, in fact before all the latest events of the last several years started, the Middle East was the area determined to be most at risk of a "major war" specifically because of issues with international water rights, water amounts & the worsening effect climate change was having on it.
It was boring think-tank material, not the stuff you read in the paper every day, but it was a top concern among people who considered long-term policy.