<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I was astonished to read this take on climate change in this article... Totally unexpected!<div><br></div><div><a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/egyptologist-kara-cooney-good-kings-book">https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/egyptologist-kara-cooney-good-kings-book</a><br><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">You write that you see signs that the patriarchy is leading society toward a collapse, repeating a pattern that has occurred throughout history. But you also note that climate change will interrupt the cycle in a big way. What can we learn about what comes next by studying the rise and fall of ancient Egyptian regimes?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">The patriarchy rises and falls in cycles, collapsing and rebuilding. But the thing that’s haunting authoritarian regimes now is that the Earth is not allowing that cycle anymore. The Earth is not allowing the ongoing extractive, consumptive, unequal hoarding that defines those regimes, because it’s unsustainable, and that unsustainability is now the undoing of the patriarchy.</span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">We’ve had smaller-scale climate change for thousands of years; think of cities wiped away by deforestation that led to mudslides. The difference now is the scale. Now it’s global. The patriarchy sows the seeds for its own destruction again and again before coming back in a vicious cycle, but the difference this time is global climate change threatens to make this the final cycle</span></span></span></p></div></div></div>---------------------------------------<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 8:24 PM Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/egyptologist-kara-cooney-good-kings-book" target="_blank">https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/egyptologist-kara-cooney-good-kings-book</a> </div>
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