tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post2467597487562435874..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: DecouplingEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51350403650587993322012-04-28T04:18:11.492-04:002012-04-28T04:18:11.492-04:00"They are also listed in order of political a..."<i>They are also listed in order of political achievability. Easiest first, the nearly impossible last.</i>"<br /><br />Indeed. It's the reason why I concluded several year ago that we're basically toast...<br /><br />Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-48337001577448677272012-04-27T14:15:48.799-04:002012-04-27T14:15:48.799-04:00@- Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.
"I ...@- Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.<br />"I hope that your five points are listed in increasing order of importance."<br /><br />A major reason for the controversy that climate science as generated is that those five points are not only listed in increasing order of importance, or effectiveness...<br /><br />They are also listed in order of political achievability. Easiest first, the nearly impossible last.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-9802775733309036402012-04-27T10:41:09.097-04:002012-04-27T10:41:09.097-04:00Eli.
I hope that your five points are listed in i...Eli.<br /><br />I hope that your five points are listed in <i>increasing</i> order of importance.<br /><br />Adaptation is going to be the least successful of any action that humans adopt in order to deal with what's coming. It's no different to chasing bunnies when one has no net, no shoes, and no clue about bunny behaviour.<br /><br /><br />Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51437000156558065092012-04-26T21:54:53.727-04:002012-04-26T21:54:53.727-04:00Outlaw more than 2 children? What, for those who ...Outlaw more than 2 children? What, for those who reproduce at all, or for the birthrate?<br /><br />Remember that 30 to 50% of women already have none or only one child. Far more important for the birth rate and the total population to be supported is **when** children are born. There's a huge difference in population outcomes when the average age at first birth increases or decreases. <br /><br />If you have one town where the average age at first birth is 20 and another is 30, and both have a 2 child average with equal numbers of boys and girls, just look at the result for any single year cohort of say 50 girls born. By the time a single year's cohort is 80 years old, the age 20 start town has to have supported 16000 years of food, shelter, schooling, medical care and the rest for the group and their 4 generation families and the next generation is already in gestation. <br /><br />Whereas the age 30 town has had to support only 11000 years for the 3 generations involved and the next generation is still 10 years away. The age 30 town could have had 3 children per woman for a total of 13000 years of life - still 3000 years less than the age 20 town. <br /><br />If you want to reduce total population, there are better ways to do it than to tell lots of children that the world would be a better place if they’d never been born. Far better to say that we want all our children, but we’re happy to wait for them to arrive later. <br /><br />MinniesMumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-47290493667214698312012-04-26T19:32:46.266-04:002012-04-26T19:32:46.266-04:00Markeymouse says;
Outlaw more than two children. ...Markeymouse says; <br />Outlaw more than two children. The world would come into balance quickly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-60267047924134236992012-04-26T18:48:04.012-04:002012-04-26T18:48:04.012-04:00The little Mouse says
We are not mitigating and do...The little Mouse says<br />We are not mitigating and doing stuff all adapting. So we will do much suffering. <br /><br />Our capitalist system relies on endless growth. That endless growth is almost over, the age of shopping is done.<br /><br />We will descend to the days of the cave man? You wish, cave man existed with a fully functioning biosphere. Our descendants will envy the cave man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-12019984953022312852012-04-26T15:02:29.582-04:002012-04-26T15:02:29.582-04:00Dumping capitalism "as we know it" is cr...Dumping capitalism "as we know it" is critical to any success in slowing our destruction of the system that makes possible the human life so many insist they revere above all else.<br /><br />That is no easier a feat then achieving success via the proffered "five fold way."<br /><br />Perhaps success at one is not possible without success at the other.<br /><br />John PumaJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12479974040070719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-59916739541145339982012-04-26T14:15:17.882-04:002012-04-26T14:15:17.882-04:00Martin: " Nothing kick-starts a society towar...Martin: " Nothing kick-starts a society toward progress as much as making girls literate."<br /><br />And that is precisely why it scares traditionalists so much.a_ray_in_dilbert_spacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-77111390265946504942012-04-26T08:05:44.534-04:002012-04-26T08:05:44.534-04:00Well color me stoopid.
Those that fail to learn t...Well color me stoopid.<br /><br />Those that fail to learn the lessons in history, are doomed to repeat them, as the history of the United States has shown from 1776 until 1918.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-61248124311804284122012-04-26T06:31:39.732-04:002012-04-26T06:31:39.732-04:00Because fertility and economic well being are stro...<i>Because fertility and economic well being are strongly inverse. The poorest countries of the world are those with the highest fertility rates, if, for no other reason that having many children is the only way to have any chance of survival (this is a lot harder on women, but in such societies they are often held in contempt as of little value for cultural reasons supported by poverty). If things improve materially, then people are more confident of their futures</i><br /><br />Eli is certainly right here, but more specifically it is not just the general standard of living that matters here, but "smart chicks". Nothing kick-starts a society toward progress as much as making girls literate.Martin Vermeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537045395760606324noreply@blogger.com