Longue Duree and World-Systems Analysis, The by Richard E. Lee

Author:Richard E. Lee [Lee, Richard E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438441948
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Climate scientists have long viewed the last 8,000 years as a time of naturally stable climate, a brief interlude between the previous glaciation and the next one. But the story presented here suggests that this warm and stable climate of the last 8,000 years may have been an accident. It may actually reflect a coincidental near-balance between a natural cooling that should have begun and an offsetting warming effect caused by humans. If this new view is correct, the very climate in which human civilizations formed was in part determined by human farming activities. Even thousands of years ago, we were becoming a force in the climate system (2005: 95).

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