TFLYTSNBN wrote:Lets face reality. Birth rates in Europe are imploding. They are having a demographic implosion. Their population pyramids have been inverted. The women are on average getting much older. Europe's women are beginning to look more like Angela Merkel than Princess Diana. As formidable as Angela Merkel's Weapons of Mass Distraction might have become, I do not want to see her naked again.
You really have no idea what daily life in Europe is like these days, do you.
I would invite you over here, but I'm afraid we don't need foreign misogynists on top of our existing stock.
I mean, we all know why birth rates are declining. If you give women options in life, by giving them access to health care and education and jobs and security, they will often choose not to have children, or to have them later.
I, for one, wouldn't want to take women's freedoms away, they do not have enough of them and had to fight much harder than should be necessary to get them in the first place.
But since you don't have such qualms, maybe you could show us how you could achieve your goal of greater birth rates in the western world without becoming an immoral monster in the process?
Or has Stephan Molyneux, whose arguments you seem to follow or at least run parallel to, not covered that topic yet?
As for the issue of new temperature records.
Even if we were not experiencing climate change, probability theory reveals that we would inevitably be setting new temperature records, either lower or higher. Europe probably has reasonably accurate temperature records for may be 200 years. That means that by random chance you have one chance in two hundred of setting a new record on anyngiven day. Does not seem like much of a chance except that you roll that 200 sided temperature record dice 365 times year.
....and you have the audacity, the nerve, to call others uninformed on matters of climate?
Then again, you're the person who doesn't know what "statistical majority" means, so I guess it's no surprise that you think that climate is just random.
My "lecherous" comments about Minoan fashions were intended to make the point that European civilizations have been at their peak when temperatures were warmer. The best available temperature reconstructions suggest that the Minoan as well as Greek, Egyptian, Persian (Asia not Europe) Indian (Asian, not American) and Chinese civilizations were all at a peak during the Minoan warm period. Ditto for the Roman warming and the Midevil warming.
How many people lived back then? I don't know, and I don't know of any good estimates, but the number was well under a billion people, and probably well under 500 million.
Today, we're trying to fit over 7.6 billion people on this planetm, using supply systems built on the assumption of a relatively constant climate. If you're willing to go kill over 7 billion people to get to conditions that enabled the civilization you're so enamoured by, go right ahead. I'm sure everyone will understand.
Global cooling is associated with civilizations declining. The Thera explosion that destroyed the Minoan empire did not seriously impact other Mediterranean cultures directly. However; the global cooling that followed (not neccessarilly as a result) caused very serious population declines world wide. There is no known catostrophic geological event that coincides with the end of the Roman warm period, but the cooling was catastrophic for everyone. Those barbarian hoardes that sacked Rome were on the move because the climate had seriously reduced their food supply.
And what do you think will happen when the middle east, south asia and south america become uninhabitable, as they are bound to do the hotter it gets?
Oh, I know that you are just itching to kill some of them darkies, but most of us have a few ethical issues with that.