The amazon- unnatural histories!

[Amelanchier]

Also those of us wooried about the increasing population should take note of Malthus and the Demogrpahic Transition Model.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Well I disagree with all the nostalgia for an era that one of us lived through. Life today for your average human is better now than it has ever been. We are fortunate to have less disease, less war, less murder, less rape, less slavery, less torture, more education, more suffrage, less child abuse, greater personal incomes and greater personal autonomy; though I would concede that the overall level of moaning about the world has probably been maintained.

 

Don't get too carried away dreaming of the idyllic lifestyle of an ancient amazonian - life was short (I suspect 40 years would be positively venerable), limited (frogs for dinner again?), parochial (no arbtalk!), drowned in superstition (do what the witchdoctor says...) and involved endless intertribal wars, skirmishes, murders and fights. Harmony indeed.

 

blimey, tony has spoken, a rare event indeed!

[gibbon]

 

involved endless intertribal wars, skirmishes, murders and fights. Harmony indeed.

 

White man's history. Did you see pocahontas?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

White man's history. Did you see pocahontas?

 

Indeed, what possible truth can we expect from the missionaries!

[Amelanchier]

White man's history. Did you see pocahontas?

 

I'd prefer evidence over postmodern relativist haymakers. Ever met a Yanamamo?

[scotspine1]

- life was short (I suspect 40 years would be positively venerable), limited (frogs for dinner again?), parochial (no arbtalk!), drowned in superstition (do what the witchdoctor says...) and involved endless intertribal wars, skirmishes, murders and fights.

 

what you've just described is pretty damn close to present day Glasgow

[David Goss]

what you've just described is pretty damn close to present day Glasgow

 

:lol:

i thought it and you said it

[scotspine1]

:lol:

i thought it and you said it

 

I'm allowed to say it

[gibbon]

 

Yanamamo - no. Kuna, Ngobe, Boruca - Yes

[skyhuck]

We live in a world of "have's" and "have nots", its very easy for the "have's" to say how wonderful the world is.