Not worth engaging it on its own level but whatever I can’t resist.
This ignores the existence of El Niño. Non-equatorial climates are incredibly stable and periodic compared to the alternating unpredictable aperiodicity of flooding then drought brought around every few years by El Niño and La Niña. To exist in equatorial climates is basically to live on Trisolaris. You have no idea if next year the land you’ve cultivated for the past two decades will suddenly become an arid wasteland. You have to be incredibly resourceful to survive in such a regime, and a lot of people didn’t. For more on this and British mismanagement of regions subject to ENSO pressures because they had no idea wtf it was (so they eliminated the vast ancestral community food stores for efficiency) read Late Victorian Holocausts.
Compare that with storing enough food for the winter that comes, regular as the tides, lasting roughly the same amount of time every year. Oooooooh so hard to plan for. Soft as baby shit.
Not worth engaging it on its own level but whatever I can’t resist.
This ignores the existence of El Niño. Non-equatorial climates are incredibly stable and periodic compared to the alternating unpredictable aperiodicity of flooding then drought brought around every few years by El Niño and La Niña. To exist in equatorial climates is basically to live on Trisolaris. You have no idea if next year the land you’ve cultivated for the past two decades will suddenly become an arid wasteland. You have to be incredibly resourceful to survive in such a regime, and a lot of people didn’t. For more on this and British mismanagement of regions subject to ENSO pressures because they had no idea wtf it was (so they eliminated the vast ancestral community food stores for efficiency) read Late Victorian Holocausts.
Compare that with storing enough food for the winter that comes, regular as the tides, lasting roughly the same amount of time every year. Oooooooh so hard to plan for. Soft as baby shit.