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RE: Geology and Civilization Part 2: Not a Drop to Drink

in #geology6 years ago

Likewise a major cause of the Syrian crisis was a drought/water crisis.

For all that the big cataclysms scare us, it's the slow, creeping threats that really kill off civilizations.

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Indeed. We have the Angkor empire to remind us of the rot that sets within the heart of any polity towards squandering the gifts of this world in ludicrous profligacy. Slow decay in human time span, but blink of an eye in the time frame of creation.

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