A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization

https://lemmy.world/post/2378640

A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization - Lemmy.world

This is an absolutely spectacular long form article from NYT that walks through small communities in mesopotamia, and how large political and economic changes have made them among the first to experience climate change as a life-threatening crisis. It also foreshadows water wars and how they could increasingly become a part of our political climate.

A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization

The word itself, Mesopotamia, means the land between rivers. It is where the wheel was invented, irrigation flourished and the

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