The Maya dealt with a form of climate change, too. Here's how they survived.

Pedro_P

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The Classic civilization could only respond to their changing climate. We can do far more if we choose to.

Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche, Mexico, Early Classic period, c. 250-600 AD.
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▼ Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million—a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing concern that climate change will likely wreak serious damage on our planet in the coming decades.
While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica, the region that is now Guatemala, Belize, Eastern Mexico, and parts of El Salvador and Honduras.
Many people believe that the ancient Maya civilization ended when it mysteriously “collapsed.” And it is true that the Maya faced many climate change challenges, including extreme droughtsthat ultimately contributed to the breakdown of their large Classic Period city-states.
However, the Maya did not disappear: Over 6 million Maya  peoplelive mainly in Eastern Mesoamerica today. What’s more, based on my own researchin the Northern Yucatan Peninsula and work by my colleagues throughout the broader Maya region, I believe Maya communities’ ability to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as they did. Instead of focusing on the final stages of Classic Maya civilization, society can learn from the practices that enabled it to survive for nearly 700 years as we consider the effects of climate change today.
Adapting to dry conditions
The earliest villages in the Maya lowlands date as far back as 2000 B.C., with several large cities developing over the following 2,000 years. A combination of factors, including environmental changes, contributed to the breakdown of many of these large Preclassic centers after the start of the first millennium A.D.
Beginning around 250 A.D., populations once again began to grow steadily in the Maya lowlands. This was the Classic Period. Laser mapping has shown that by the eighth century A.D., sophisticated agricultural systems supported city-statesof tens of thousands of people.
Available evidence suggests that although the climate remained relatively stable for much of the Classic Period, there were occasional periods of decreased precipitation. Additionally, each year was sharply divided between dry and rainy seasons. Maximizing water efficiency and storage, and timing the planting season correctly, were very important. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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soothsayer

This should be great learning for us. Without formal degrees and education they have acievev what we could not.

Pedro_P

soothsayer 22-5-2019 01:32 AM
This should be great learning for us. Without formal degrees and education they have acievev what we ...

Something very different happened to the south of the American continent, many ancient cultures were extinguished because of one of the climatic phenomena of greatest impact on this side of the world, the El Niño Phenomenon, which inexorably devastated many cultures despite having a culture of human sacrifices, in the hope of appeasing the wrath of the gods over their peoples and societies.

Rhett_Bassard

Pedro_P 22-5-2019 01:21 AM
Something very different happened to the south of the American continent, many ancient cultures we ...

As the ancient priests used to say at Lake Titicaca:
"There's no sacrifice like human sacrifice."

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Rhett Bassard 23-5-2019 01:02 AM
As the ancient priests used to say at Lake Titicaca:
"There's no sacrifice like human sacrifice." ...

I suspect that Jesus also thought the same... But before him, Abraham.

ssangra

paradox......one of the 10 commandments ...thou shalt not kill......yet it is violated so many times.

Pedro_P

ssangra 25-5-2019 08:28 AM
paradox......one of the 10 commandments ...thou shalt not kill......yet it is violated so many times ...

The commandment "you shall not kill" applies only among members of the same tribe (group, society, nation, etc.), in that sense, anyone who threatens the integrity or beliefs of the tribe can be eliminated or exterminated.
For that reason, it is that the Catholic Church, for example, does not condemn the death penalty, or does not regret the deaths caused by the inquisition.
Even in countries where the Christian religion is dominant, military institutions have chaplains (military priests), and obviously a soldier does not go to a war to drink tea with the enemy, a soldier will kill, but those deaths that this soldier has caused, he will be religiously and spiritually forgiven.
If some person within the tribe kills another of their own tribe, then they would be violating that commandment and committing a sin.

ssangra

So u are advocating that killing of a human by another human is like relativity....dependent on the frame of reference of the observer. Its ok in some cases and not ok in others.  Like relativity there is no absolute truth or frame of reference. As long as one is alive one can never be sure of staying alive as one can never be sure of the rash act of another from another community who may misinterpret ur deeds and action or intent. What an unsafe world that is....and I though religion was designed to prevent humans from murdering each other whatever b the need / greed to do so......will need to ponder over the clan based interpretation of the intent of the commandments....