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2026-04-06 13:56 UTC

@kentpitman wrote: «Seems like only yesterday. (Civilization, that is.)» Where "yesterday" started about six and a half thousand years ago on the Lower Danube. And every climate change has set us back since. Around the beginning of the Fourth Millennium climate change was directly related to the collapse of that same Danube Civilization (properly, the Varna Culture). More recently, during another climate change Antiquity shifted into the Early Middle Ages (sometimes known as the Dark Ages). History is Life's teacher. Her exams, though, come before her lessons. But she hasn't needed to change the exam questions for a very long time... 🙁 #ClimateChange #HistoriaMagistraVitae

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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social 2026-04-06 19:47

@vnikolov "And every climate change has set us back since. ... History is Life's teacher." Sadly, what some insist on learning from this is that Climate Change is cyclic and that humanity survives it. But that is a terrible lesson for reasons I laid out in my 2009 essay "George". https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/05/george.html What we should be learning is more the stuff of my 2020 essay "Humanity's Superpower", which I circulate here more often. I hope it won't spoil it to say it offers Science as humanity's superpower. It concludes with this: "If we super-stupidly elect to close our eyes to Science, rendering ourselves super-blind, we're just asking to find ourselves super-dead." https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/humanitys-superpower_28.html

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