Climate change forged first civilizations


	Climate change forged first civilizations

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9-7-2006 8:28 AM

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Climate change forged first civilizations: scientist 
</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/sc_nm/environment_civilization_dc_1"><P>
NORWICH (Reuters) - The earliest civilizations were not a
product of favorable conditions but rather a last resort in the
face of dramatic shifts in the weather, a climate scientist
said on Thursday.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/sc_nm/environment_civilization_dc_1"><P>Flying in the face of accepted theory that settled
societies emerged from the development of static farming in
good climatic conditions that produced food surpluses and
allowed specialization, Nick Brooks said the opposite was true.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/sc_nm/environment_civilization_dc_1"><P>"Civilization did not arise as the result of a benign
environment which allowed humanity to indulge a preference for
living in complex, urban civilized societies," he told the
annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/sc_nm/environment_civilization_dc_1"><P>"On the contrary, what we tend to think of today as
civilization was an accidental by-product of unplanned
adaptation to catastrophic climate change. Civilization was a
last resort," he added.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/33F1B946-637A-4A7E-9552-0E731E685602/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>