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Quote Originally Posted by RickThai View Post
I just read a book about the earliest humans, and the "climate change" that occurred about 30,000 years ago was believed to be one of the primary reasons homo sapiens sapiens survived and homo sapiens neanderthals perished.

So apparently "climate change" has been around long before "progressives" discovered it.

RickThai
What book did you read? 'Quest for Fire' or some other fiction? You see, 30,000 years ago the earth was cooling down, and glaciers extented all over the place. Note the correlation with the CO2 levels, and that the difference in the CO2 level in % we produced ourselves so far is as great as during the ice age, and that the temperatures fluctuated by a full 10 centigrades.



Anyway, do you mind to stick to some Buddha wisdoms?
Wow! I didn't realize "progressive" scientists started keeping data on temperatures that long ago.

Actually the book I read stated that the first homo sapiens sapiens migrated from Africa around 60,000 years ago. At that time, anthropologists theorized that the entire population of homo sapiens sapiens was between 2500 and 5000 individuals.

Many anthropologists believed that no more than 150 individuals or so crossed the Red Sea and went on to populate Europe and eventually the rest of the world.

There was another homo sapiens sapiens relative (I forget the scientific name) that apparently evolved in Asia, but eventually they lost out to homo sapiens sapiens as well.

Actually, I was just thinking about "Quest for Fire" the other day. That was a pretty neat movie for its time.

As far as Buddhist doctrine, it is generally thought that one's actions in this life will determine one's fate when reborn into the next life.

You might wind up as an animal, a spirit (trapped in one of several hells), or another human being (either better than before or worse). I suppose it is possible that all the Neanderthals were reborn as liberals

Santi,

RickThai