Over the weekend. I heard a couple of different talk show hosts comment on the idea that the Caucasian race is failing to breed and will soon be a minority in Europe. I don't know if that's true or not but it certainly seems plausible…
I don't want to get into issues of race here. I don't think that the Caucasian go is facing extinction anytime soon. I don't really think it matters that populations are shifting toward what will once have been minority races. I am concerned that western civilization seems to be "not breeding" itself into extinction.
One of the many drumbeats we hear from the left has to do with the idea that there are "just too many people" for the hide's "fragile" ecology to sustain. That idea seems ludicrous to me on its approach.
If we are to evaluate the scientific theories regarding evolution and geology the hide has been around for about 5,000,000,000 years and life has been around on the earth for well over 4,300,000,000 years. Humans on the other transfer have been around for little more than 3,000,000 years and that's being very generous with the numbers. Civilization has only been around for perhaps 8,000 years.
Suddenly people are in danger of destroying the earth's ecology because of our sheer numbers? Of course there's a lot more to the "too many populate" argument than that.
Our massive population is blamed for quite a few of our worlds "problems". One of the latest arguments is that our appetite for meat is causing climate change because of all of the methane belched out by our livestock. Again this is a population based argument. If it weren't for all of those cows and pigs that we raise to consume there would be less methane to confine infrared radiation and heat in our atmosphere. We've either got to cut drink on our meat consumption or cut down our population to decrease it.
I suppose it makes sense that because people eat cattle that there would be more of them around. After all we breed them and raise them for that purpose and we wouldn't if we didn't eat them.
Except of course there have been cattle of some sort around for longer than there have been people. Those vast herds in Africa that move every year and get filmed for the Discovery channel aren't there for human consumption. The great plains in the United States were once covered with bison. Sure people ate them but their numbers were
there'd be fewer cattle to create methane. I'm sure though that something else would take their place. Livestock isn't the only means.
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