Global Warming & Cooling May End Civilizations

A scientific study finds that historical records of rapid climate change coincides with the decline and fall of empires.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19968-fall-of-roman-empire-linked-to-wild-shifts-in-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Other interpretations are possible. Yet it was probably Attila the Hun and the Goths combining to assault a decadent Roman Empire in the same time period that led to the end of the Roman Empire. One might speculate that rapid climate change drove the Goths out of the North and the Huns off from the step, yet we like to think that it was the wild debauchery on wealthy estates and pretty jewels that stimulated the pagan hordes to attacks and plundering of conspicuous wealth.

With more than 30,000 people killed in Mexico in the drug wars the past 4 years perhaps Mexico is becoming more like a pagan host readying to attack an empire with climate change, or maybe not. If draught overtakes China because of global warming they will be motivated to attack Alaska and cooler places in Siberia and North America with hundreds of millions of soldiers and stealth fighters.

I still prefer to believe that dumb, uncreative political leadership is a better reason for the end of civilization as well as a factor in anthropogenic climate change including global warming. Throughout the past fifty years U.S. political leadership has avoiding taking the turn toward anti-ecocide insinuation of our society into a green peace with a stable population motivated toward quality rather than quantity growth with full employment and a fair, free standard of living for all.

For some reason homo sapiens sapiens believe that as the sole surviving species of the hominid line we are excellent survivors, instead, it may be a reason for less than optimism regarding human prospects on Earth-unlike varieties of ants, only one kind of human species exists and its prospects for destroying itself and the global ecosystem are excellent.