American Mega Drought Cycle

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American Mega Drought Cycle Anonymous Sun Jun 26 17:39:22 2022 No.49985855 [Reply] [Original]

Every few centuries North America enters a cyclical mega drought that lasts for a decade to a century. The evidence for the mega drought cycle can be found in the four corners area at Mesa Verde. This is where an entire settled civilization with a government, extensive agriculture, and complex religious rituals collapsed in the archeological equivalent of a blink of an eye.

How could this be? There couldn't have been a conflict that wiped all of them out, the cliffs were well defended and there's little evidence of warfare. There couldn't have been an outbreak of disease, the skeletons show no evidence of that. They weren't stagnant, they were the only civilization in the area and were expanding before this. The actual killer of the Cliff Dwellers isn't obvious, until you look at the trees.

In the 14th century tree growth froze in the Southwest for one simple reason: drought. In fact tree growth became so slow it can be inferred that at its worst years were passing without rain. The Cliff Dwellers even with their agriculture and grain stores simply ran out of water then ran out of food, forcing them to migrate to lower elevations where melt water rivers still flowed. It is likely they then became the Pueblo Indians.

What's shocking about this is that this same pattern of city building followed by extinction due to drought. The USA negotiated the Colorado River compact between the Southwest states in the 1930s, before anyone even knew about the drought cycle, and it assumed that the hoover dam could always produce a few million acre feet of water. America has assigned water that doesn't exist to a desert populated by 50 million people who are about to experience drought conditions on par with the Atacama in Chile. American civilization will fall in the same way the Cliff Dwellers did.

Any investment strategy must take into account the mass migration from the Southwest within 10 years. Are you financially prepared?

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