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Since the ice age ended 10.000 years ago, civilization has evolved where climate, arable land, transport routes and natural resources favor it. Humans thrived and multiplied. There are now about 1.000 times as many people as emerged from the ice age, 20 times at Christ’s birth, four times as many as in 1900. With favorable, stable climate, humans are a wildly successful species.
Now this success may be in jeopardy. Atmospheric C02 has increased by about 30 percent beyond its historic
96.4%