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Global Climate change leading to new types of lifeways?

Jim Jaeger

Still reading Professor Christian's book This Fleeting World while seeing the wildfires on the news brings the idea of climate change to the forefront. One question Professor Christian offers is based on the idea that warmer, wetter, and more productive climates after the last ice age may explain why foragers came together as agricultural communities.

Might global climate change in the twenty-first century alter the nature of communities that we live in? Furthermore, could it even lead to the creation of entirely new types of lifeways akin to the changes of 11,000 years ago?  

As an aside, I visited my family in Wisconsin over the break.  Coming up from Tucson, I feel like the midwest never left the ice age as it is freezing there. 

Welcome back from the winter break everyone!

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  • Hahahahah! Wisconsin can get pretty cold.

    A great place to experience climate polarity is Washington State. The Cascade Mountains divide the state so that the west side-- against the ocean, has a wet, humid, fairly mild climate. East of the mountains is semi-arid. The "leeward" side of the Rainshadow Effect is dry, which means for very hot summers and pretty cold winters (but still not as bad as Wisconsin!!).

    I can see Eastern Washington's adaption to a warming climate be crop changes. Different crops are already being grown compared to 30 years ago, and the trend seems to be a long-term acceptance that the shift will continue. The problem, however, will always be access to irrigation. Rivers are lower and warmer, and they must serve more consurmers than they once did.

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  • Hahahahah! Wisconsin can get pretty cold.

    A great place to experience climate polarity is Washington State. The Cascade Mountains divide the state so that the west side-- against the ocean, has a wet, humid, fairly mild climate. East of the mountains is semi-arid. The "leeward" side of the Rainshadow Effect is dry, which means for very hot summers and pretty cold winters (but still not as bad as Wisconsin!!).

    I can see Eastern Washington's adaption to a warming climate be crop changes. Different crops are already being grown compared to 30 years ago, and the trend seems to be a long-term acceptance that the shift will continue. The problem, however, will always be access to irrigation. Rivers are lower and warmer, and they must serve more consurmers than they once did.

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