Posted on 06/20/2015 12:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
More people killed since 1980 than all of the world’s wars and health epidemics, throughout all of history, combined: 1.33 Billion killed by their own mothers: http://www.numberofabortions.com/
Easy enough. They are sky rats. Everywhere up there. Go to the Pacific North West and find an old growth Kmart sign. They regularly nest in them. Thats why the left dropped having that meme front and center.
Prior to the internet it was easy to hide the truth. The whales and polar bears are easier since no one lives where they are so the left merely says a thing and it becomes so.
What a crock.
Great posts, links, discussion. BUMP!
Exactly. If there is a movement to curtail waste, let’s start with Hollywood celebrities and government officials. Look at the pigs in the White House first.
Historically speaking, a totalitarian socialist regime is the most effective way to reduce human population and there simply is no way to do that humanely.
And doing nothing will not get you any political power or steal you any wealth.
The entire notion of "dark ages" is an invention of secular Enlightenment writers trying to make themselves look better.
I’ve been slowly feeding this type info to my 30-50 y/o nephews and nieces. Thankfully, they are waking up to the horrors the left wishes to visit on their kids and grandkids.
Good! Me too. Knowledge is power.
As modern life and more efficient food production occurs, especially in modern, 1st world countries with mechanized agriculture, nature is making a big comeback.
New England sees a return of forests, wildlife
Not only are the forest returning, so is the wildlife, even the big animals; moose, bear, panthers, wolves...
Still, it won't be exactly like the world the original colonists encountered...
Why?
Those noble Native Americans, peaceful sages of mother nature and her forest primeval; regularly started forest fires to burn down undergrowth and otherwise make the landscape better for hunting larger animals...
Yes, the tom-tom beating, circle dancing, dream catcher making original hippies altered the natural world to suit them, just like the evil white men!
And it took how many hundred years for all that to come about and bear fruit...literally? Not sure what motivates you to rewrite several hundred years of established history but whatever.
>There was a (minor) spike in extinctions at the time of the discovery of previously isolated islands, because of the inadvertent introduction of more competitive species from the continental mainlands of the world. Except for that, we’re not talking about anything major. Mass extinction is another liberal lie.
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/extinctions_birds_mammals_historical.jpg
Oh, while I’m on the subject, why didn’t the Holy Spirit use his direct line with the Pope to warn us about the vulnerability of native species in real time, so we could have made an informed decision; and, instead condemns us afterword for what was an innocent mistakes?
Somehow I managed to gain weight during this period of mass human starvation. The book has been criticized for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades, for its inaccurate predictions. Gee, ya think?
Apparently, he is at it again. Another progressive alarmist, trying to stir up the need to kill capitalism and impose socialism on the world.
This started in 1493 - the start of the homogenocene era when species of flora and fauna that had been separated by oceans, mountains and deserts started being transported and established on distant shores. It has picked up considerably with our now nearly complete global trade system.
Hardier invasive species are displacing native species. There's your extinction. The weak must adapt or die.
Oh, good! Someone FINALLY filled out all the paperwork, IN TRIPLICATE, got their confirmation number from the EPA/EEOC/IRS/CDC/NBC/ABC/CNN that their application had been received and in turn got a scheduled appointment.
IT'S OFFICIAL! None of these false starts by people like Paul Ehrlich and his mentor, the famous Prof. Chas (Chick) N. Little.
OMG!!! Evil Incarnate.....God does not like having His Gifts returned to Him UNOPENED! This is why we are DOOMED.
You'll enjoy this: The perils of designer tribalism
"...............One of Sandall’s main tasks in The Culture Cult is to convince us that what Lévi-Strauss dismissed as “so-called” is really “well-called.” Sandall does not mention William Henry’s In Defense of Elitism (1994)—another unfairly neglected book—but his argument in The Culture Cult reinforces Henry’s accurate, if politically incorrect, observation that
the simple fact [is] that some people are better than others—smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace. Some ideas are better than others, some values more enduring, some works of art more universal. Some cultures, though we dare not say it, are more accomplished than others and therefore more worthy of study. Every corner of the human race may have something to contribute. That does not mean that all contributions are equal. . . . It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
Henry’s quip about the bone in the nose elicited the expected quota of outrage from culture-cultists. But the outrage missed the serious and, ultimately, the deeply humane point of the observation. What Sandall calls romantic primitivism puts a premium on quaintness, which it then embroiders with the rhetoric of authenticity. There are two casualties of this process. One is an intellectual casualty: it becomes increasingly difficult to tell the truth about the achievements and liabilities of other cultures. The other casualty is a moral, social, and political one. Who suffers from the expression of romantic primitivism? Not the Lauren Huttons and Claude Lévi-Strausses of the world. On the contrary, the people who suffer are the objects of the romantic primitive’s compassion, “respect,” and pretended emulation. Sandall asks:
Should American Indians and New Zealand Maoris and Australian Aborigines be urged to preserve their traditional cultures at all costs? Should they be told that assimilation is wrong? And is it wise to leave them entirely to their own devices?
Sandall is right that the answers, respectively, are No, No, and No: “The best chance of a good life for indigenes is the same as for you and me: full fluency and literacy in English, as much math as we can handle, and a job.”
This is a truth that was broadly recognized at least through the 1950s. With the failure of colonialism, however, came a gigantic failure of nerve. (It might be said, in fact, that the failure of colonialism was a gigantic failure of nerve.) More and more, confusion replaced confidence, and with confusion came the pathologies of guilt.
Since the folly of locking up native peoples in their old-time cultures is obvious, but it is tactless to say so, governments have everywhere resorted to the rhetoric of “reconciliation.” This pretends that the problem is psychological and moral: rejig the public mind, ask leading political figures to adopt a contrite demeanor and apologize for the sins of history, and all will be well. Underlying this is the assumption that we are all on the same plain of social development, divided only by misunderstanding.
But this assumption, Sandall emphasizes, “is false.” And it was recognized as false by governments everywhere until quite recently. Around 1970, the big change set in. Then, instead of attempting to help primitives enter the modern world, we were enjoined to admire them and their (suitably idealized) way of life. As Sandall observes, “the effect on indigenes of romanticizing their past has been devastating.”
If your traditonal way of life has no alphabet, no writing, no books, and no libraries, and yet you are continually told that you have a culture which is “rich,” “complex,” and “sophisticated,” how can you realistically see your place in the scheme of things? If all such hyperbole were true, who would need books or writing? Why not hang up a “Gone Fishing” sign and head for the beach? I might do that myself. In Australia, policies inspired by the Culture Cult have brought the illiterization of thousands of Aborigines whose grandparents could read and write.
The statistics are grim. Between 1965 and 1975, Sandall reports, Aborigines arrived at one college with sixth-grade reading levels; in 1990, after primary education had been handed over to local Aboriginal communities, that had fallen to third grade. Today most Aborigines arrive at the college in question almost completely illiterate.
This social disaster was the result of specific political policies. But the policies themselves were the result of a moral attitude, one that many anthropologists have actively nurtured. In part, the attitude is a reflection of the Lévi-Straussian “non-hierarchical” view of culture: the view which denies that there are important distinctions to be made between la pensée sauvage and the mind, for example, of Claude Lévi-Strauss. In part, what we might call the “anthropological attitude” is a coefficient of the idea—also fostered by Lévi-Strauss, among many others—that culture is at bottom a “narrative,” a product of “social construction.” And the results of that development—corrosive skepticism, blasé nihilism, irresponsible relativism—have helped to place anthropology in the intellectual slum wherein it now molders."........................
More importantly for them, have they considered who will feed them, pipe water to them, deal with their garbage & sewage, provide electricity, keep all the newly saved wolves away from their doors?
I really liked the end of Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six".
Erlich is a scientific jackass. He is the classic Malthusian chicken little and he’s consistently wrong over decades of idiot declarations.
The globalists are building a huge fear campaign to help prepare us for the One World Gov leader (perhaps the antichrist exhibiting visual miracles to persuade us) who will step in and declare that he alone can save the planet and mankind.
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