I would say that most, if not all empires and advanced societies suffered/fell due to the minimums. I think that this is the main factor that 'they' keep from the public. We have spent the last half century funding their underground escapades. For what? A nuclear war or solar minimum where famine is the order. Gives a whole new meaning to "Control the food, control the people"....what is left of the people that is. Most advanced societies I look to in the past had a very unstable system regarding food. As in any disruption in the food supply causes the empire to crumble.
My take is that the heritable psychopathy that seems to mark the families that have generationally wielded covert power over societies of late would not engender their suffering the poverty such collapses of civilization would subject them to.
Spot on. I agree.
if they did recall the heights of the megalithic civilizations from the LGM, why did they not simply maintain enclaves with those technologies? Why plunge themselves into relative penury?
Zone changes due to solar minimums. They ebb and flow. "Grow zones". A place that is prime, can be rendered sub-prime in a matter of years. Magnetic shifts and precessions just totally changing landscapes. For example, was south america (mayan/Aztec lands) really always so much insanely dense forest/jungle? Or was it far more habitable before a previous zone shift?
Good stuff. This is exactly the kind of talk I look for thank you!