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Nick Brumfield
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, Middle East, Maritime Security | BA Ohio University, MA Georgetown University | Posts about the Middle East, Appalachia, and what I'm reading | From WV/Mid-Ohio Valley, based in DC | Getting hostile in my mentions gets a block
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Everyone uses Rome as the metaphor for civilization decline. After reading that Yellow River book, I feel like China may be better. A high capacity state transforms its environment, grows to an unprecedented size, only for ill ecological effects to result in catastrophic disaster for ordinary ppl.
Check out the Fall of Civilisations podcast, it’s one of my fave adult bedtime story sources
Also, which book? 📕
Mesopotamia even more so, perhaps
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Nick Brumfield
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, Middle East, Maritime Security | BA Ohio University, MA Georgetown University | Posts about the Middle East, Appalachia, and what I'm reading | From WV/Mid-Ohio Valley, based in DC | Getting hostile in my mentions gets a block
3k followers1.4k following12.2k posts