Catastrophism & Lost Civilizations: Unveiling Earth's Violent Past
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Discover how the theory of catastrophism provides a vital framework for understanding the disappearance of ancient civilizations. This segment explores the immense scale and magnitude of past climatic and geological events, especially those impacting vulnerable coastal societies with massive sea level rise.
Uncover compelling evidence from Greenland Ice Cores, which reveal dramatic and rapid temperature fluctuations over the last 10,000 years. Learn how even minor shifts, like a 2-3 degree cooling for a century or two, could trigger widespread agricultural collapse, famine, and mass mortality, irrevocably altering the course of human history.
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The concept of catastrophism provides the context in which you can actually begin to address lost civilizations. And when you understand the scale and the scope and the magnitude of these events that have occurred, you can now understand, okay, I see now why civilizations may have become lost. Right. Yes. Agree. Especially when they were coastal. They were sitting on the edge of the water, and then this massive melt happens and the oceans go up 300 meters or whatever, you know, there goes your coastal city. Yeah. Ah, actually 400 feet, which is about 150 meters. There we go. But that's enough. You figure 400 feet, that's a lot of sea level rise. Yes. A little bit. Oh, what do we have? Oxygen isotopes. Okay. Yeah, this is the the now, this is the other thing that came out in the early 90s, and again, kind of got pushed to the side because it didn't fit the prevailing political models. But like I said, this says here, this is the graph of the last 10,000 years of temperature change as preserved in Greenland Ice cores, shows temperature constantly and repeatedly warming and cooling, 2 degrees to 3 degrees ...
