Former Vice President Al Gore makes an interesting assessment on his blog site...

A new study suggests the Mayan civilization might have collapsed due to environmental disasters:

"'These models suggest that as ecosystems were destroyed by mismanagement or were transformed by global climatic shifts, the depletion of agricultural and wild foods eventually contributed to the failure of the Maya sociopolitical system,' writes environmental archaeologist Kitty Emery of the Florida Museum of Natural History in the current Human Ecology journal."

As we move towards solving the climate crisis, we need to remember the consequences to civilizations that refused to take environmental concerns seriously.

Al Gore's site

So...the Mayans mismanaged their eco-system? Isn't that a little judgmental and racist?

Now I wonder just what the Mayan's did to disturb the global climate situation of their day? Burn too many camp fires? Cut down too many trees? Eat too many fish? Kill too many monkeys? And, whatever they did caused change in the earth's climate and environmental situation?

Come on now...seriously...this is dipping pretty deep into the blame barrel. There just isn't anything coming up from this scraping for blame...not a thing...except perhaps a not so subtle effort to invent a crisis...

xtnyoda, shalomed