Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Why the US Is Ditching Coal as an Energy Source || Peter Zeihan" video.

@Chris.starfleet Temperate zone is always better than the tropics or tundra. Too much precipitation and soil nutrient deprivation in tropics, tiny windows for growing and harvesting in tundra. The US has amazing weather compared to most of the world. Europe’s placement is more north latitude, so averages colder temps. The US Midwest is the largest arable farmland on the planet with longer growing and harvesting seasons than anywhere else as well, right in the middle of the largest connected river network on the planet.
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@HKim0072 Have you ever lived in Russia by chance? It’s brutal-cold, like North Dakota or the uninhabited regions of Canada. Winter is deep and long, and when “spring/summer” comes along, everything turns to mud for several weeks. Then grandfather frost returns, and you’re back to freezing. Infrastructure is almost non-existent.
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@ForageGardener Most of the US is easily-developed with pre-industrial era living and farming because of the connected river networks flowing down from 3 North-South mountain ranges and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s just that people, including most with Master’s Degrees, don’t know much about US geography. It’s not taught in schools, colleges, and universities for some reason. Even the high desert was inhabited in the early-mid 1800s by pioneers who fled from the East, which blossomed like a rose ever since.
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@nicholassmith7984 Vikings and the Eastern Seaboard and Woodland tribes would have fought until Vikings were killed-off, which is probably what actually happened. We only have remnants of a few Viking settlements in the Northeast, but there is growing evidence that they traveled down the coast more and maybe even inland. It’s a numbers game at that point. A few hundred Norsemen against millions of natives. It would steer the Vikings more into a trade relationship once they would have seen the vast numbers of peoples in the Eastern North American forest and small cities they had.
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@Nylon_riot It’s been a passion of mine for many decades, among other things. Leif Erickson didn’t just set sail Westward on a whim into the chilly waters of the North Atlantic. There is growing evidence that there were preexisting trade routes between Europe and North America for fur, copper, and unique goods to NA, and the Norsemen knew of them in their oral history. These trade routes would have ebbed and flowed with the expansion and retraction of the northern ice. If you look at the Great Lakes region, there’s an island that has ancient copper mines all over it with open pits still to this day that contribute to wildlife deaths (from falls, can’t escape). There is no recorded history known about who excavated and mined those pits. The volume of copper mined out of the Great Lakes indicates that the export of the copper would have been intercontinental. Copper was very prominent in Native American civilizations and tribes, and they also traded with Central America. Ancient Mediterranean civilizations had ships large enough to get to America and such a discovery would have been kept secret to its explorers/traders. There are stones and many other artifacts in the US alone that are engraved with ancient Phoenician/Hebrew, mound-builders who made mounds in the shapes of Minoras, and the Bat Creek Stone has an inscription that reads: “For the Judeans”. It is way pre-Columbian. What I think we would find with a complete record would be multiple expeditions and trade routes throughout time with North America and the British Isles, Mediterranean, and Europeans covering many different eras. Chinese are the likely predecessors to the Central American Olmecs. History gets erased by cataclysms, wars, famines, and migrations or extinctions. I have a lot of books on these subjects, and have traveled to many museums from Asia to Central America, the US, and Europe.
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