More Goregasms

[varian]

Looking Back to Look Forward November 19, 2008 : 3:04 PMA new study suggests the Mayan civilization might have collapsed due to environmental disasters:

"'These models suggest that as ecosystems were destroyed by mismanagement or were transformed by global climatic shifts, the depletion of agricultural and wild foods eventually contributed to the failure of the Maya sociopolitical system,' writes environmental archaeologist Kitty Emery of the Florida Museum of Natural History in the current Human Ecology journal."
As we move towards solving the climate crisis, we need to remember the consequences to civilizations that refused to take environmental concerns seriously.

If you haven’t read already read it, take a look at Jared Diamond’s book, Collapse.

http://blog.algore.com/2008/11/looking_back_to_look_forward.html

Poster's note:

Since the main mode of transportation in Meso-America was by foot, then the "Carbon footprint" of the Mayans would have been no larger than their own two feet. :cool:

[Mediocrates]

The Mayans didn't manage their water resources well enough. That's what doomed them. It's in Diamond's book.

[pro-israel]

Hello, All-

I am a new member, and as a resident of Tennessee, I tend to 'zoom in' on anything related to my State/Al Gore, etc.
This man (Gore) is the greatest one-man threat to our modern civilization than any other human being on the planet. He is also a hypocrite, because his home in Nashville is huge, and the electric bills he runs up are phenomenal, and he flys everywhere he goes outside Tennessee in a private jet. He once stated that all the world's basic problems were related to over-population, and that we could solve them by getting rid of 1/3 of Earth's humanity. In other words, he would like to see 2 BILLION people dead, but he never volunteers to be the first one in line to go!

Thanks-

Pro-Israel;)

[Kenneth]

The Mayans didn't manage their water resources well enough. That's what doomed them. It's in Diamond's book.

They were also extremely pretentious and only drank Bling. As show here is this historically accurate drawing. (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/sunburstyello/mayans-drank-only-bling-tha.gif)