You do realise that Italy was previously Rome, and along with Greece, they kickstarted European democracy and governance? And they had (surprise) hot climates?

Do you realise that the fall of the Roman empire (west side) was mainly triggered by climate change?

Perhaps the climates 2000 years ago were not as hot as we might think.

It was warmer actually if we compare e.g. 0 AD to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Climate change you’re talking about resulted in a decrease in temperatures when the “Roman warm period” ended.

You literally didn’t even try to research this hot take, did you? Climate change is not the same as global warming, though related.

TL;DR - Warm weather good, cold weather bad. Plague much worse.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...

> the characteristic warm, wet and stable weather was conducive to economic productivity in an agrarian society

> violent sequence of eruptions triggered what is now called the ‘Late Antique Little Ice Age,’ when much colder temperatures endured for at least 150 years.

> This phase of climate deterioration had decisive effects in Rome’s unravelling. It was also intimately linked to a catastrophe of even greater moment: the outbreak of the first pandemic of bubonic plague.

Protestant work ethic.

What exactly drove the apparition of this work ethic ? or of Protestantism in general ?

Go the 5 whys route and you'll end up at the environment.