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Why Climate Change is Racist Against Africans, According to JM
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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
[Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]
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For some reason, I feel this topic needs some videos by Hans Rosling.
Starting with
how not to be ignorant about the world
How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), de...
On the influence of religion:
http://www.ted.com Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? ...
And on the energy problem
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Postby the way, i'm pleased to see that brazil has a fertility rate of only 1.8. let's hope improvements to healthcare and family planning in recent years see it fall further.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.
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Originally posted by NICE MOBIUS View PostThe other thing I found preposterous about JM's argument, was the way that he dismissed the effects of India's population (for the record, JM, India is not in Africa ) growth on the world. Sure, it's a relatively low growth rate of about 1.2%, but that's of a massive population of over a billion people...
2015: 1,282,390,303
2014: 1,267,401,849
Figures
That's a population growth last year of 14,988,454!
To put that into perspective, if India's population growth of one year suddenly became a country in Africa, it would be 23rd out of 54(55) in population.
List of African Countries and Territories by PopulationNo, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostIn the meantime, can they do something about all the poop in the harbor?"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostActually, in a recent issue of Scientific American, it is shown that India is among the lowest nations in per capita CO2 emissions, and on a par with Russia in terms of total emissions.
I guess if we raise the standard of living for the majority of the people there to western standards (including the possession of one car for most families) then our world is doomedTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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