• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      14 days ago

      To be fair, Greenland was much greener during the Medieval Warm Period when it was settled. In fact, the leading theory as to why the Greenland Viking settlements died out was because they refused to learn to live like the Inuit, who had settled the northern, still frozen, part of Greenland not too long after the Vikings and knew how to live in tundra.

      But there was a lot of grazing and farmland when the Vikings first settled and they did very well for a while, until the climate changed.

      Sounds a bit familiar.