Sunday, November 15, 2009
Al Gore to be sued by over 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming fraud
Founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman: "We have tried to get a debate on global warming with a scientists on the other side...but they said 'oh no the debate is over.' Well now there are 30,000 of us... 9,000 PHDs who have signed up to debunk global warming....You realize that Fox is the only cable network that will put us on the air, CNN won't...MSNBC won't...CBS/ABC wont', they scoff at us. We can't get on the air. If it weren't for the Internet you wouldn't even know I existed."
Now before you judge as some nut who doesn't believe in global warming, hear me out. I'm not for or against the Global Warming theory, but I am for a debate. I rushed to the theaters to see "An Inconvenient Truth" when it first came out and left being a full supporter of the Global Warming Theory; just as millions of people did I'm sure. But after that movie, the debate ended. Everyone seemed to accept Global Warming as truth, after all just look at all the pollution in world! Well the picture we got on TV was only 1/2 of the debate. What about those scientists that opposed to the theory? What are their claims and what evidence do they have against it? Do you realize that there has never been a televised debate between scientists on the Global Warming theory? Make up your own mind, don't let Al Gore do it for you. Take a look at the video, and if you get a chance read "35 Inconvenient Truths: The Errors in Al Gore's Movie"
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Original Rich Society
What time period did the first rich society emerge? Was it the Renaissance era? Britain after industrialization? The first rich society was actually the Paleolithic hunter-gather society, dating from the dawn of human civilization to around 8000BC. Hunter and gatherers did very little work, and managed to live happy lives with lots of leisure time.
Men spent 2 to 3 days out of the week hunting big game. When they managed to kill a large animal, such as a giraffe, the meat provided the tribe with enough food for a week. Men had superior statuses due to their strength and ability to hunt large game. Women gathered, trapped small animals, and raised the children. With the accompaniment of children, women gathered 80% of the calories the tribe consumed. They gathered medical herbs that relieved tribesmen when they fell ill. The remedies were passed down through oral tradition because they did not have a writing system.
There was no government in the hunter-gatherer societies. If tribesmen had disputes, they would have to talk it out, or seniors would come in and vote on a solution. There was little inequality in the society. If someone had more food than they needed, there was pressure in the tribe to give some of it away to the hungry. Tribes were very cooperative. In a sense, tribesmen pooled the risk by sharing. They depended on reciprocity, it was expected.
Although not everyone could hunt, everyone got meat. Because paleolithic societies did not have technology to store food, all surpluses had to be eaten or it would go to waste. When the food supply got thin, tribes migrated to new lands. The old and the sick would be left to die. There was no more than 50 to 100 people in a tribe. If the population grew beyond this capacity, the tribe tended to have a dispute and split into two tribes.
People were few compared to the abundant resources available, but as populations grew tribes ran into Malthusian Constraints.
Tragedy of the Commons - a communal good with no property rights, treated like a free good, ends up being over-consumed until it is gone.
Since tribes could no longer rely on an abundance of big game, they had to abandon hunting and gathering for agriculture. Tribes became adaptive to the environment. They learned the properties of plants. Some tribes dipped the tips of their arrows in a poisonous juice extracted from beetles to bring large animals down. Agriculture relieved the constraints of an expanding population. Archaeological evidence suggests big game had died out after humans appeared.
Are people really happier today? There is no evidence of that.
Men spent 2 to 3 days out of the week hunting big game. When they managed to kill a large animal, such as a giraffe, the meat provided the tribe with enough food for a week. Men had superior statuses due to their strength and ability to hunt large game. Women gathered, trapped small animals, and raised the children. With the accompaniment of children, women gathered 80% of the calories the tribe consumed. They gathered medical herbs that relieved tribesmen when they fell ill. The remedies were passed down through oral tradition because they did not have a writing system.
There was no government in the hunter-gatherer societies. If tribesmen had disputes, they would have to talk it out, or seniors would come in and vote on a solution. There was little inequality in the society. If someone had more food than they needed, there was pressure in the tribe to give some of it away to the hungry. Tribes were very cooperative. In a sense, tribesmen pooled the risk by sharing. They depended on reciprocity, it was expected.
Although not everyone could hunt, everyone got meat. Because paleolithic societies did not have technology to store food, all surpluses had to be eaten or it would go to waste. When the food supply got thin, tribes migrated to new lands. The old and the sick would be left to die. There was no more than 50 to 100 people in a tribe. If the population grew beyond this capacity, the tribe tended to have a dispute and split into two tribes.
People were few compared to the abundant resources available, but as populations grew tribes ran into Malthusian Constraints.
Malthusian Constraints
As populations grew, societies pressed up against resource constraints. Archaeological evidence of resource constraints can be seen in the diet of the societies. As big game was hunted to extinction, tribes began eating varied kinds of food, things they wouldn't have eaten unless they had to, Broad Spectrum Theory.Tragedy of the Commons - a communal good with no property rights, treated like a free good, ends up being over-consumed until it is gone.
Since tribes could no longer rely on an abundance of big game, they had to abandon hunting and gathering for agriculture. Tribes became adaptive to the environment. They learned the properties of plants. Some tribes dipped the tips of their arrows in a poisonous juice extracted from beetles to bring large animals down. Agriculture relieved the constraints of an expanding population. Archaeological evidence suggests big game had died out after humans appeared.
Are people really happier today? There is no evidence of that.
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