The Role Of Climate Change In Antarctica

Although Antarctica is pretty irrelevant in the world today, its break off from the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland 30 million years ago, played a crucial role in stabilizing the climate for human life. In particularly, Its separation from South America created water gaps which allowed winds to sweep around the world.In addition, the separation created a cooler climate more stabilized for human life (Linden, 35). It was not until 5,000 years ago when urban societies developed laying the foundations for civilizations. A civilization is a society that includes cities, specialized labor, complex institutions, writing, trade, and war. Civilizations were advanced with monumental architecture including pyramids and ziggurats. Furthermore, some civilizations developed urban planning with the creation of sewage systems, and the use of bricks. Most importantly, civilizations all developed their own form of writing. Cuneiform, hieroglyphics, and quipu were all systems of writing in civilizations. What could have caused all these
By using the great technology scientist and professors have studied the cores of lakes, rivers, and oceans to determine what climatic events were happening from thousands of years ago. Climate change created the opportunity for civilizations but it wasn’t long until it destroyed its own creation. Today climate change is a serious issue, however, it is ignored by many people and is not taken as a serious issue. In the past 15,000 years, sea levels have risen one hundred and twenty meters and they are still on the rise (The Attacking Ocean, Fagan 4). Millions of people are now living by big water sources where one storm or flood can ruin their whole life. Climate change created and destroyed civilizations, and it’s only a matter of time until climate change destroys the advanced civilizations we live in