That's fascinating. The only problem I have with it is that huge farms went fallow bit. Where? The only intensive agriculture I know of in the New World were the champas around Tenōchtitlān, which were about equivalent to the rice paddies around Saigon. (Very roughly. The point being, if the rest of Southeast Asia were relatively uncultivated, what climate difference would these make?)
It's interesting to speculate what effect would result if 99.5 percent of humans dried up and blew away tomorrow. (Leaving out radiological effects if a nuclear power plant failed to shut down properly!) George Stewart's Earth Abides did so, but he wrote it in 1948, when the maybe-two billion population hadn't done any real damage to the planet yet. (You could still see the San Gabriel Mountains from downtown Los Angeles then - and stars at night. Imagine!)
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Date: 2012-08-01 04:16 pm (UTC)That's fascinating. The only problem I have with it is that huge farms went fallow bit. Where? The only intensive agriculture I know of in the New World were the champas around Tenōchtitlān, which were about equivalent to the rice paddies around Saigon. (Very roughly. The point being, if the rest of Southeast Asia were relatively uncultivated, what climate difference would these make?)
It's interesting to speculate what effect would result if 99.5 percent of humans dried up and blew away tomorrow. (Leaving out radiological effects if a nuclear power plant failed to shut down properly!) George Stewart's Earth Abides did so, but he wrote it in 1948, when the maybe-two billion population hadn't done any real damage to the planet yet. (You could still see the San Gabriel Mountains from downtown Los Angeles then - and stars at night. Imagine!)