The study was recently published in the journal “Frontiers in Earth Science.”Water is mankind’s most important basic resource. Due to large gaps in the archeological data basis, it is mostly unknown how the past population reacted to the environmental changes. Environmental changes as a stress factor and the resulting migration could thus have served as a framework in which new behavioral strategies developed and prevailed. Present-day deserts were once extensive lakes, and even those lakes that still exist today could face pressure due to anthropogenic climate change. This gives me hope that we, in today’s so-called Anthropocene, will also manage to change our behavior and still be able to rein in the man-made environmental changes,” adds Fischer in closing.

Source: Ethiopian News July 09, 2020 07:52 UTC