Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in response to climate change

Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by worik on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:00PM (#29407697)

Interesting.

That is exactly what scares me most.

> Not enough rainfall to water the crops? Fear not, we can pipe water in from other places, synthesize it from sea water or extract it from extreme depths.

Leading to greater collapses with worse consequences

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Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by jjoonathan on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:59PM (#29410256)

You know what scares me? The rise of learned helplessness and its pseudo-enlightened relative, "we should do nothing because anything we do could go wrong."

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Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by titzer on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:05PM (#29411290)

Compared to the ultra-stupid "let's pump up global CO2 to levels not seen in 4 million years; we swear nothing bad will happen," doing nothing might be a good change of pace for global civilization.

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Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by lazide on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:56AM (#29413310)

Considering said CO2 is already out there and doesn’t seem to be magically disappearing on it’s own, that seems unlikely.

And not like those 8 billion mouths that currently need feeding are going to go quietly into that dark night if something starts to go wrong.

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