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Washington Post: Global Warming Forces Farmers in India to Commit Suicide
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| August 2, 2017
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 08/02/2017 2:21:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Garth Tater
Native Americans did in fact have some rudimentary agriculture, hence the maize (corn is a European term for wheat), potatoes, some other domesticated crops. That’s what made them a Neolithic culture. But the traditional idea of the farmer doesn’t really apply to Native Americans, since they were basically still a hunter/gatherer society. Take a look at the average corn or potato field today. The Native Americans had nothing by comparison.
To: Jim Robinson
I bow to your absolute genius in being able to connect all of those dots.
Here I just thought they offed themselves because it was, you know INDIA.
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posted on
08/02/2017 3:39:28 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: Jim Robinson
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We are humbled by your superior logic, Dr. Robinson! :o)
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posted on
08/02/2017 3:41:52 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Native Americans did in fact have some rudimentary agriculture
Rudimentary agriculture that supported cities with as many as 40,000 inhabitants.
There were undoubtedly hunter/gatherer tribes in the pre-Columbian Americas but there were also much more advanced cultures living in large cities supported by extensive agriculture. You don't feed a city of many thousands or even hundreds without farming.
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posted on
08/02/2017 3:52:45 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Garth Tater
You’re referring to the Incas or the Aztecs? I agree they had civilizations on the verge of becoming ones more like those of Indo-European ones, before the conquistadors. They were more the exception than the rule, however. Most lived on simple hunting/gathering. OK I know native Americans farmed, but the typical native American in North America didn’t.
To: Godzilla; Kaslin
"The Washington compost is making the national enquirer and the weekly world look like respectable newspapers...."
The story was published by many, many newspapers in the US and around the world because it was originally published by the US Academy of Sciences and the British Royal Society.
To: Godzilla; All
Check out the readers replies. Most of them agree with us, which actually comes as a surprise being that the article comes from the Washington Compost.
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posted on
08/02/2017 4:25:20 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur - Politicians are not born; they are excreted. (Cicero)
To: Kaslin
He must have slipped that in somewhere between his fawning over Apple's new I phone (no one has seen).
I know I'm getting old but it's really hard to believe an adult can get all worked up over a frigg'n phone.
Apple should send Rush a check for the huge infomercial he did for them today.
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posted on
08/02/2017 4:32:44 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
( Transgender: A person that thinks s/he's wrong side out.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
The Chahokia Indians built large cities and practiced extensive agriculture in pre-Columbian North America. There were others but I'm too lazy to go look up their names :)
From the link:
"Cahokia was a city that,
at its peak from 1050-1200 A.D., was larger than many European cities, including London. The city encompassed at least 120 mounds and a population between 10,000 and 20,000 people spread out over six square miles (16 square kilometers)."
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posted on
08/02/2017 4:47:05 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Kaslin
I’m starting to suspect that it’s causing my charlie horses too. /s
Also someone ate a whole container of peanut butter pecan chocolate chip cookies I made the other day and no one’s fessing up. Wait until I tell the family I know what caused it.
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posted on
08/02/2017 4:56:55 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Garth Tater
Yeah, well I knew native Americans developed some agriculture, but not to what extent. Just not as large an extent as Europeans or Asians. Truth be told, modern humans have existed for at least 200,000 years, and in that time agriculture is a recent invention. It allows for all we have in modern civilization. The fact that some developed it just a short time ago says nothing about the huge stretch of time that occurred before it. Switching from a hunter/gatherer society might have had some disadvantages, in fact. Relying on a single source of food tends to deplete the body of the various nutritional requirements necessary for it. Hence there have been many nutrition-related diseases as a result of pure agriculture, and not enough hunting/gathering, that have wiped out whole communities. On a side not, humans are no longer in their natural environment. We evolved as hunter/gatherers, and modern society isn’t what we’re designed for.
To: Telepathic Intruder
Well somebody fed Tenochtitlan ! Population estimated by Cortés to be 200,000. Where's the Ancient Alien guy I bet he has an answer!😆
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posted on
08/02/2017 5:13:59 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: Telepathic Intruder
As a species we were bigger and stronger before we discovered the wonders of modern agriculture. If it wasn't for the lack of beer I'd be more than happy to go back to a culture based on hunting and gathering - especially we could have horses to get back and forth to the hunting grounds. I think the American Indian cultures lagged behind European and Asian cultures largely because they ate their native horses before they got around to domesticating them. No horses meant no need to develop the wheel which made large scale transport of beer impossible and without plenty of beer very few people can stand living in close proximity to others so the smart ones just went back to living in the woods and left the cities to rot. Kind of like today - you couldn't pay me enough (even with beer) to live in a big city. Good talking to you.
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posted on
08/02/2017 5:39:25 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Garth Tater
Yeah, it’s all a about the beer. I’m serious.
To: Kaslin; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:03:32 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
To: Kaslin
I’m much more inclined to think the suicides are due to frustration with bad reportage by the LSM than Gorebal Worming.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:34:07 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Kaslin
I realize I am late to the party here, but UC Berkeley might want to look at terminating the employment of one Tamma Carleton, due to causing total embarrassment of the institution. If that’s what they consider reliable research, then they need to rethink who they’ve hired.
To: Kaslin
See? Global Warming can solve overpopulation problems!
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posted on
08/03/2017 6:45:04 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
08/03/2017 6:46:54 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN AND MCCONNELL!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
To: Jim Robinson
Helps solve the overpopulation problem!
:)
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posted on
08/03/2017 6:47:58 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN AND MCCONNELL!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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