For an agricultural community drought quickly leads to famine.

And, as the saying goes, 'when you starve with a tiger the tiger starves last.'


Jenny, try this:


https://www.academia.edu/

It's been a while since I registered but as I recall after you set up a name and password they ask you what university you are affiliated with. You can check that you are an independent researcher, though.

You can get stuff life this.....

https://www.academia.edu/7782543/The_Coins_from_a_Roman-Period_farmstead_at_el-Qabu_south_of_Ashqelon_Atiqot_71_2012_35_-_46

I absolutely love the works by Jared Daimond. History may not repeat its self, but it sure as hell rhymes. ( Mark Twain. )

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(August 8, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: For an agricultural community drought quickly leads to famine.

And, as the saying goes, 'when you starve with a tiger the tiger starves last.'


Jenny, try this:


https://www.academia.edu/

It's been a while since I registered but as I recall after you set up a name and password they ask you what university you are affiliated with. You can check that you are an independent researcher, though.

You can get stuff life this.....

https://www.academia.edu/7782543/The_Coins_from_a_Roman-Period_farmstead_at_el-Qabu_south_of_Ashqelon_Atiqot_71_2012_35_-_46

wow! That's a super awesome source. I know this was aimed at me, but I thank you never the less!

Yeah..well...real archaeological papers can be sleep-inducing. Probably why so many shitheads swear by that fucking bible. Not very informative but a lot more entertaining.

(August 6, 2014 at 1:52 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Get ready for the great California civil war.

Isn't that state expecting heavy rain in a few months?

(August 11, 2014 at 7:24 pm)Polaris Wrote:

(August 6, 2014 at 1:52 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Get ready for the great California civil war.

Isn't that state expecting heavy rain in a few months?

It's been one of the worst drought years in California history. I don't know about the rain forecast, but that would be good. My post was more a parody of the fact that it's not the drought that causes war, but the subsequent starvation that follows. I.E. California has a drought but definitely will not be going to war.

If the Imperial Valley dries up the whole country will feel the effects on the supermarket shelves.

(August 8, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: For an agricultural community drought quickly leads to famine.

And, as the saying goes, 'when you starve with a tiger the tiger starves last.'


Jenny, try this:


https://www.academia.edu/

It's been a while since I registered but as I recall after you set up a name and password they ask you what university you are affiliated with. You can check that you are an independent researcher, though.

You can get stuff life this.....

https://www.academia.edu/7782543/The_Coins_from_a_Roman-Period_farmstead_at_el-Qabu_south_of_Ashqelon_Atiqot_71_2012_35_-_46

THANK YOU!

(August 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If the Imperial Valley dries up the whole country will feel the effects on the supermarket shelves.

True enough, seems unlikely to lead to a civil war.

(August 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If the Imperial Valley dries up the whole country will feel the effects on the supermarket shelves.

Considering almost all of imperial valley is well below sea level a moderate one time effort can ensure it stays quite wet permanently.

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(August 12, 2014 at 3:29 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:

(August 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If the Imperial Valley dries up the whole country will feel the effects on the supermarket shelves.

True enough, seems unlikely to lead to a civil war.

If Mexico was a real country, the wanton and sometimes total hijacking of water from Colorado river by the US, partly to water imperial valley, would have led to war.

Several major rivers in Asia, vital to the agricultures of India and Vietnam, originates from china. China is chronically short of water, and with global warming the situation is expected to get dramatically worse. To deal with this the Chinese intends to do on these rivers and to those countries exactly what the United States did on the Colorado river to Mexico, and has started major hydroelectric, aqueduct and irrigation projects that would reserve almost all water flowing in these rivers for use in china and all but stop all water from reaching down stream. This could very well collapse the agriculture in wide swaths of India and Vietnamese and lead to either war directly for water rights, or war nominally for other reasons but fundamentally with water rights as a major driving factor.

(August 12, 2014 at 3:29 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:

(August 12, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If the Imperial Valley dries up the whole country will feel the effects on the supermarket shelves.

True enough, seems unlikely to lead to a civil war.

There is a difference between higher prices and a famine.