Jenab
January 3rd, 2006, 06:57 PM
I posted this first on the Peak Oil forum.
http://www.peakoil.com/post238125.html#238125
Wow... If we are rolling back female rights, can we reinstitute smoking on airplanes please? I'm just sayin...
"We" aren't going to roll back female rights. It's not going to be a legislative or policy sort of thing. The usual historical forces will return women to their traditional role, because it was the superabundance of extrasomatic energy that let them (temporarily) climb out of it. Women will be wives because that's how they will acquire an economic niche for motherhood. Women will be mothers because every race that stubbornly persists in having a low birthrate will be wiped off the Earth by those who maintain a high birthrate.
The fact that the side having the biggest army usually wins the battle translates into a requirement for women being frequently mothers to warriors and to the next generation's mothers.
Overpopulation cannot be controlled by limiting births. An attempt to do so naturally fizzles for either of two reasons. As "responsible" people limit their family size and "irresponsible" people do not, the capacity for civic responsibility gets culled out of the population. Each generation is less inclined than its predecessor to obey calls for birth control. That's the piecemeal type of failure.
There's also a catastrophic failure mode in which a population that mostly heeds the call to limit family size finds itself, due to its smaller numbers, vulnerable to conquest by another population that did not try to limit its birthrate. The war is fought, the biggest army wins, and the losers are exterminated.
So the notion that birth control is a way to solve overpopulation is wrong.
And when a copious resource of extrasomatic energy isn't available, women can no longer be afforded careers at the expense of motherhood. If they insist on it, they will be as good as cutting the throat of their own nation. Eventually, the Earth will be the possession of those whose women "knew their places" and stayed there.
Jerry Abbott
http://www.peakoil.com/post238125.html#238125
Wow... If we are rolling back female rights, can we reinstitute smoking on airplanes please? I'm just sayin...
"We" aren't going to roll back female rights. It's not going to be a legislative or policy sort of thing. The usual historical forces will return women to their traditional role, because it was the superabundance of extrasomatic energy that let them (temporarily) climb out of it. Women will be wives because that's how they will acquire an economic niche for motherhood. Women will be mothers because every race that stubbornly persists in having a low birthrate will be wiped off the Earth by those who maintain a high birthrate.
The fact that the side having the biggest army usually wins the battle translates into a requirement for women being frequently mothers to warriors and to the next generation's mothers.
Overpopulation cannot be controlled by limiting births. An attempt to do so naturally fizzles for either of two reasons. As "responsible" people limit their family size and "irresponsible" people do not, the capacity for civic responsibility gets culled out of the population. Each generation is less inclined than its predecessor to obey calls for birth control. That's the piecemeal type of failure.
There's also a catastrophic failure mode in which a population that mostly heeds the call to limit family size finds itself, due to its smaller numbers, vulnerable to conquest by another population that did not try to limit its birthrate. The war is fought, the biggest army wins, and the losers are exterminated.
So the notion that birth control is a way to solve overpopulation is wrong.
And when a copious resource of extrasomatic energy isn't available, women can no longer be afforded careers at the expense of motherhood. If they insist on it, they will be as good as cutting the throat of their own nation. Eventually, the Earth will be the possession of those whose women "knew their places" and stayed there.
Jerry Abbott