Extinction was the price the Viking settlers of Greenland paid for ignoring global climate change. Will the same thing happen to us?

Once residents of a flourishing Viking outpost in the tenth century, the Greenlanders had vanished by 1425. Author and amateur historian J. A. Hunsinger says the Greenlanders have much to teach us if we will only listen. Among these lessons are:

• Be proactive. The Greenlanders expected the bad weather to go away.
It didn’t; they did.

• Adopt a sustainable lifestyle. The Greenlanders continued European farming practices that exhausted the land.

• Learn from everybody. The Eskimos, the indigenous inhabitants of Greenland, thrived while the Greenlanders stubbornly kept to their Old Country ways and starved.

• Prepare a fall-back position. The Greenlanders’ failure to plan ahead left them only two options: either to starve or attempt to find a new home across the unexplored ocean to the West.

CREDENTIALS: J. A. Hunsinger is a retired airline pilot and technical writer who makes Vikings relevant to modern audiences. As far back as he can remember, he has felt a powerful link with his Norse ancestors and an overwhelming need to tell their story. Though his character-driven book series, AXE OF IRON: The Settlers, (Vinland Publishing, 2007), is a work of fiction, he uses real archaeological discoveries to substantiate his theory that the Greenland Vikings settled in North America centuries before Columbus.

AVAILABILITY: Grand Junction and Denver, CO; Salt Lake City, UT, and nationwide via telephone
CONTACT: J. A. Hunsinger, (877) 884-8481 (Toll Free), (CO); Info@vinlandpublishing.com; http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/02175.htm