Why did they all end up dead? Well, in my five-point framework, the first item on the framework is to look for human impacts on the environment: people inadvertently destroying the resource base on which they depend. And in the case of the Viking Norse, the Vikings inadvertently caused soil erosion and deforestation, which was a particular problem for them because they required forests to make charcoal, to make iron.
Zašto su umrli? Prema mojoj shemi od pet točaka, prva točka je ljudski utjecaj na okoliš: ljudi nesvjesno uništavaju prirodne izvore o kojima ovise. A u slučaju vikinških Nordijaca, Vikinzi su nenamjerno uzrokovali eroziju tla i deforestaciju, što je za njih predstavljalo značajan problem jer im je šuma bila nužna za pravljenje drvenog ugljena i željeza.