I wonder if you’ve seen Ray V. Audette’s book NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body, which outlines a simple, natural way of eating based on what is known of the diet of Paleolithic humans. Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Hunting, Vegetarianism| Read More
In My Ishmael, are you proposing “unlocking” the food, and if so, what do you see the economical ramifications of this to be? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Famine, Population Control| Read More
With regard to population, when the 6 billionth person was born, one of the writers for National Review tried to put this into perspective and reveled that if all 6 billion people lived in the state of Texas, each of them would have an eighth of an acre to him/herself. This doesn’t seem like too many people to me. Any comments? Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Birth Control, Education, Famine, Population Control| Read More
Yes, but how are the strategies proposed in Beyond Civilization supposed to eliminate pollution, overpopulation, crime, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, poverty, police brutality, political corruption, racism, child abuse, violence against women, homophobia, pornography, violence in film and music, exploitation of the elderly, date rape, judicial malfeasance, insider trading, road rage, and media bias? Categories: I Have a Bone to Pick with You!, I Have a Question About the Books/the Characters, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Animals & Animal Rights, Beyond Civilization, Birth Control, Education, Evolution, Extinctions, Famine, Hunting, Leavers & Takers, Medicine, Priorities, Religion, Revolution, Technology| Read More
Ishmael says that to feed a starving people will only perpetuate their suffering, and I agree. However, Ishmael also offered as a solution “moving the starving people out, to a place where food is more abundant.” Beg your pardon, but unless I misread what you are saying, I cannot possibly understand this logic. What is the difference between sending food to the people, and sending people to the food? Is the result not the same? Would they not simply multiply in the area to whence they were moved, and eventually exhaust all those resources, as well? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Famine, Population Control| Read More
Wouldn’t the laws of chance dictate that the Agricultural Revolution was bound to happen to one culture in the human race sooner or later? If so, wouldn’t this contradict what B said about the Agricultural Revolution being a fluke? Maybe there was a specific reason for the revolution that we just haven’t discovered yet. Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Education, Revolution, Vegetarianism| Read More
But what about democracy? We are all raised to believe that democracy is a huge achievement of man, that it is a much more benign and enlightened form or government, that it represents another step in the inevitable upward evolution from the desperate ‘brutish, mean, and short’ life of primitive man toward civilization and then democracy. But I have started to question this. Democracy evolved out the taker totalitarian states that lock up the food, and democracy locks up the food even more effectively than totalitarian states do. It seems that once the totalitarian state had trained everyone to believe that life consisted of ‘death and taxes’, distributed totalitarianism, or capitalism, was a much more effective way to increase the surplus produced each year. Democracy made the life of the peasant worse. Under totalitarianism, at least you only had one despot to please. Now, you have a multitude of despots competing to produce the most surplus on your back. Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture| Read More
If we were to just stabilize the production of food as of ‘right’ now, like you do in your mice experiments, and discontinue the way of furthering the expansion of food production, it just seems as though people in poorer areas of the world would just drop like flies. Categories: I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Famine, Population Control| Read More
It seems to me that you’re advocating a return to living by natural means—but it also seems to me that it’s simply impossible to feed six billion people by natural means. How do you resolve this dilemma? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Agriculture, Birth Control, Famine, Population Control| Read More
It seems to me that the only way we can feed 6 billion people is by totalitarian agriculture. Sustainable agriculture will do the job for aboriginal peoples, but it won’t do the job for 6 billion. Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Famine, Population Control| Read More
