Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery,
and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened
humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized
this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm,
melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new
landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous
creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like
to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves,
and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and
mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this
ancient trail?
The shifting weather patterns of today—what we call "global
warming"—will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug
Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change,
from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a
deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in
an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near
his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same
region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles
with the warming seasons.
In The Shadow Of The Sabertooth - Doug Peacock
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