I was reading up on how many irish people practically starved and had to live off of what was it? potatoes? Irish people have definable facial characters and I think women with red hair are very attractive.
My Grandparents came to OZ from Northern Ireland to escape oppression a very long time ago. No red hair here. Mostly blonde / blue eyes and very fair skin. And tall. The potato famine was a disaster a fungal disease got into the staple crop and wiped it out.
The whole of Northern Europe and most of northern North America about starved,that was during the little ice age.
if we have another Little Ice Age, with the kind of world population depending on the food production we have now, somebody is going to die, most likely from war.
Hungry people don't sit around waiting to starve to death. They fight over scarce commodities like oil and food. The losers die and the winners get the food and oil.
Be that as it may, eventually hungry people will succumb to illness as their hungry bodies fail to fight off infection, before they starve to death entirely, so if it wasn't for the fact we have nuclear weapons, war would be preferable to famine starvation and pestilence.
I doubt it will be Americans, with the United States spending 50% of the planet's defense spending. Is Bushie reading Revelations (the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Famine, War, Pestilence, Death) when he asks for the DoD budget?
Mega Disasters: Mega Freeze
Discussion of carrying capacity of planet drops as climate change sets in. Expert: "6 billion people will need to get off the planet. And the way 6 billion people get off the planet is war."
Right now the climate of North America and Northern Europe is regulated by the Gulf Stream ocean currents that flow up past the U.S. and Canada East Coast and down past England and Spain. That takes warm water and air from the equator and circulates it up to the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. and Canada and the British Isles and France and Spain. It makes agriculture much easier at northern latitudes.
Way back in the days of mail sent by ship, it was discovered that the mail sent to Britain arrived more quickly than the mail coming back to America. Those ships were sailing on the Gulf Stream current and had a little help of an invisible river flowing in the ocean.
It works because there is a delicate balance between fresh warm and cold salty water like a conveyer belt, which is in danger of being disrupted by immense amounts of fresh water being introduced by melting glaciers from Greenland. An extreme example was depicted in the movie The Day After Tomorrow and in the companion book The Coming Global Superstorm (a further complication was that CO2 was trapping warm air at lower altitudes, so air at very high altitudes was superfrigid, and if it ever fell to the ground it would be cold enough, perhaps, to kill human beings on contact, although maybe not enough to freeze jet fuel)
Without the Gulf Stream, the warmer weather of present-day Vermont, Britain, France, etc. would disappear and it would look just like Canada or Siberia at the same latitude and the agriculture going on at that latitude would suffer.
Of course almost 7 billion people have been eating, drinking, and making babies all these years and it will probably come as a shock to them that agriculture is something they can't depend on. Agriculture is governed by factors beyond our control: weather, topsoil, fresh water, petroleum, and petrochemical fertilizer and pesticides, and we have been lucky for a long time. But we have been eroding our topsoil, running out of groundwater and riverwater, running low on petroleum, and the climate can always be affected by a supervolcanic eruption, climate change, limited nuclear war, gamma ray burst, and/or asteroid or comet impact. We are not gods of the environment. We may yet be reminded of how mortal we are when we have too many people and not enough food, water, and petroleum to care for them.
Shrek, thanks that was very informative. Chamuel, I usually can tell if someone is irish, it's not like theres single thing. But it's just like how you can tell someone is black. People from different regions look different, just like plants. But we're still all brothers and sisters.
I found this image
here. The article describes how the Irish were seen as little more than apes at one time.
Some time ago I came across a paper which tried to refute the theory of human evolution and it used the Irish as an example. I can't find it now but the main point was that humans did not evolve from apes and that any human population subjected to intense famine would become degraded and end up looking like apes in a few generations. Supposedly, the bones of these types of people are being mistaken for those of archaic pre-human hominids. This perception that the Irish looked like apes during the potato famine was pervasive during the 1800s so there might have been some truth in these observations and not just racism.
http://www.fathom.com/feature/122035/
This is the complete article.
Racism seems to be a pervasive human condition. Asians were regarded as sub-human back in Victorian times, and Australia was reported as being totally unpopulated (a human history of at least 40,000 years!)
It seems no one race of people has ever liked any other: primitive tribalism extended globally.
One reason I'm almost glad that Autism masquerades as a "disability". Can you imagine how long we'd last as an incipient and discreet population if it got out that we *are* an incipient and discreet population?
Alison
I think asian girls are very nice
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I think asian girls are very nice
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Since I married an asian man, I have to agree with you!
Alison
Asian girls are beautiful, very petite. Most of the men are nice looking as well. Because they are slim they all are able to wear the latest fashions and look good.
Racism does seem to be a pervasive human condition, probably linked to the idea of 'survival of the fittest'.
Thanks theosoph, interesting website, this same doctor was linked in with murders to gain more cadavers for anatomical research.
I like Vietnamese or Chinese..... or Korean maybe Japanese
I doubt it will be Americans, with the United States spending 50% of the planet's defense spending. Is Bushie reading Revelations (the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Famine, War, Pestilence, Death) when he asks for the DoD budget?
Two words for you there, Shrek: Gaza Strip.
Alison