Alas, Brave New Babylon 60-second Youtube trailer
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
They got through one hard year and apparently did nothing to feed themselves during the summer ... then winter hit.
For people who had crossed about 4000 miles of ocean, and parked alongside an overwhelming abundance of seafood, this is just unfathomable.
why does the author keep asking if there was cannibalism and going back to determine if the girl was butchered when the same author cites people admitting to it?
It’s important to include some context to this.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans to the east coast, the number one cause of death for Native Americans was starvation. And there are strong indications that some of the tribes did resort to cannibalism now and then.
Alas, Brave New Babylon 60-second Youtube trailer
Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
and I wonder if this won’t be what happens to those volunteers who are going to Mars on a one way trip.
That is because the colony adopted socialism that first year. They had agreed to equally share the fruits of everyone else's labor. So many colonists thinking that someone else was growing food for them decided to go out looking for riches instead. When the first winter hit, they found themselves woefully short of food.
In the second year, they decided not to distribute equally, but instead decided that each person was responsible for his/herself if they wanted to survive the second winter. If a person wanted to eat, they needed to either produce their own food or trade with someone else for it.
That second winter, the colony survived, thanks to the evils of capitalism.
Some of the recipe books from that period for beef stew start out with add carrots, celery and 1 human....
This is getting personal! (see tag)
Apparently, their EBT cards had been depleted.