Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,'

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46. The one around 1177-186 (the date changes constantly) BC comes very close

There were multiple advanced states around the Mediterranean with overaland and upriver trade routes to the interiot, some stretching all the way to China. In a few short years,ever seemingly stable and prsperous civilization had collapsed and no one is sure why. Some contamporary messages from one to another talked of famine and begged for food. Others talked of the Sea People, now thought to be more refugee than armed force. The whole known world just collapsed and vanished, most for hundreds of years, the sole exception being Egypt, and even they had a prolonged periiod of civil instability, famine, and delayed recovery.

What makes the Bronze Age Collapse equivalent are both its totality and rapidity. We have no idea what started it, where it started, or even where a lot of the abandoned civilizations listed later by the Egyptians had even been. It would be like driving 500 miles to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving, topping up the gas and eating lunch halfway there, then noticing there were no other cars on the road, the gas stations were all shut down, gas food joints had their doors wide open and were dark, and Grandma's town was deserted, houses standing open and looking like people had packed and left in a huge hurry. No Grandma, no note, no nothing, and not enough gas to get home. No bodies, either, which is how we know it wasn't large scale war or plague.

Humanity has been through major collapses before and likely will again and my money is still on the resilient San people if the rest of us die of our own stupidity. There are others, of course, but the San are the most numerous.