tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post6045506420419068021..comments2023-03-24T21:49:49.118-04:00Comments on Dubious Prospects: Polarisation is an inappropriate frameGraydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-18340559604374061232020-11-21T02:20:54.562-05:002020-11-21T02:20:54.562-05:00Survival has a very large majority by population
...<i>Survival has a very large majority by population</i><br /><br />That might be true, but sadly it's almost completely the opposite in democratic countries. Unless you want to make the argument that ~90% of eligible voters would literally rather die than vote for their own survival.<br /><br />That's an argument I first heard made about racism: people *say* all sorts of nice stuff, but Moznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-61234992088249562212020-11-20T22:21:00.759-05:002020-11-20T22:21:00.759-05:00+Moz --
There's indication of cultivation dow...+Moz --<br /><br />There's indication of cultivation down on the (now drowned) continental shelves during the last peak glacial according to some plant geneticists. But that's still hypothetical; the stuff out of the scope of the hypothetical has plant domestication happening somewhere around ten thousand years before present.<br /><br />And here we are now dependent on five crops with aGraydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-33936728973706746632020-11-20T00:25:23.277-05:002020-11-20T00:25:23.277-05:00it's never happened before
... to humans, on ...<i>it's never happened before</i><br /><br />... to humans, on a global scale. I reckon the last ice age was pretty savage globally, for humans, but we didn't have agriculture then (as far as anyone knows...)<br /><br />But luckily we know from local experience how to deal with it. Civilisation in the affected area collapses, most people die, then "barbarians" from outside Moznoreply@blogger.com