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If we can freely recycle water how little of it would we need on Earth before we would see an ecological change?


Can you explain why Mesopotamia was once an agricultural Mecca but is now an arid desert?

Or what human event caused the little ice age? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Do you really believe all climate change in world history, which was dramatic and highly disruptive, was human caused?


> Can you explain why Mesopotamia was once an agricultural Mecca but is now an arid desert?

I'm not familiar, so no, not off the top of my head. Do you?

> Or what human event caused the little ice age? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

If you are asking for human factors only then according to your link: "Decreases in the human population (such as from the massacres by Genghis Khan, the Black Death and the epidemics emerging in the Americas upon European contact)."

> Do you really believe all climate change in world history, which was dramatic and highly disruptive, was human caused?

I said nothing of the sort.


The climate changed because it’s always changing. Humans adapted, but they didn’t cause it


It's nice that you can be so confidently wrong, just like an LLM. In reality, the climate changes we observe since the the 1800s is largely human caused.

It's not an opinion, it's a fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

Read it out:

'This human role in climate change is considered "unequivocal" and "incontrovertible". Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists say humans are causing climate change.'

So stop trying to push misinformation and educate yourself.


The climate is changing just as it always has. We used to be in an ice world, I wonder how humans caused that to end


> The climate is changing just as it always has

Wrong, it's changing much faster due to man-made greenhouse gasses. Make the effort to read through the science and facts I shared.

Here are some additional ones, from scientists (99.99% or 97%, depending on recency of studies, agree that man-made climate change is the leading driver of the global warming we are experiencing today):

- https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/causes/

- https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/ev...

"Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.

Life on Earth depends on energy coming from the Sun. About half the light energy reaching Earth's atmosphere passes through the air and clouds to the surface, where it is absorbed and radiated in the form of infrared heat. About 90% of this heat is then absorbed by greenhouse gases and re-radiated, slowing heat loss to space."

Hopefully that clarifies things.

> I wonder how humans caused that to end

It's all explained in the link(s) I shared. Educate yourself.




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