Posted on 01/19/2023 6:22:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In a New York Times op-ed, author Mara Altman lays out several benefits of being small, but none bigger than this one: The shorter you are, the more you’ll help save the planet from peril.
Altman highlights the calculations of the researcher Thomas Samaras, who once estimated that if all citizens of the United State were just 10 percent shorter, and with our same proportions, we’d save 87 million tons of food per year. And that’s just the food.
In short, size matters. If you’re naturally smaller, logic dictates that you’ll use up fewer precious resources, and you’re better suited for long-term survival than your taller counterparts. Mating with someone short, then, may help your kids’ chances at survival, and their kids’ chances, and, well, you get the point.
Imagine a catastrophic event that limits resources. The big people die first, because they have the most needs.
So, while big is considered better by today’s societal norms (and not just in Texas) short just may be safer—both for the world and your chances at personal long-term survival.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
OK, line ‘em up.
:)
The stupidity runs deep in this article.
As a just barely five foot tall man I could get on board with this. My wife, however, will not be on board.
Don’t want no short people ‘round here.
and this Expert should go “BLEEP” itself
I guess she doesn’t realize we shortys probably eat as much as everyone else
Women should only mate with us old men who have had the big V so no children.
I am a short woman. We can grow on ya. We are also very useful when you get locked out of your house.
Come on, give short a chance. LOL
It use to be the Scientific Consensus that a magical Philosophers Stone would turn lead into gold and make you immortal as well. I find that concept more believable than the Global Warming Scam.
How much would be saved if we didn’t let millions of illegal immigrants into the country and let them go back to where they came from and already used less resource....oh, but that is different, isn’t it?
Thanks Iggy, for one of my favorite songs.
What guy doesn’t remember those little 5 foot or less, 90-pound cuties from high school.
Turns out Randy Newman was wrong all those years ago.
Every one of these “experts” needs to f_ck off en masse.
I can see the headline now:
‘Side effects of new vaccine include Achondroplasia due to genetic mutation.’
“Mutation”: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. /s
Short people got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick ‘em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
‘Round here
*credit to Randy Newman
Let me guess... the “experts” pushing this theory are all Asian?
Great minds think alike :)
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