Drought 2022

[matrixmann]

Europe dries out this year...
Thank you, people! Thank you for traveling to Majorca every summer, for traveling to Turkey, Egypt and all the other Mediterranian areas, thank you for every cruise trip you ever joined in the last 20 years, thank you for producing and buying all the short-lived stuff and throwing things away before their expiration, thank you for outsourcing and globalized economy, thank you for all the wars in the Middle East, thank you for all the babies you had to get in the last 20 years, thank you for all the crap you've thoughtlessly thrown into nature, than you for all the stuff you have thoughtlessly taken from nature, thank you for valuing everything in money and rating it higher than matter - thank you for coming up and never getting enough!
That's what everyone gets from it!
And there's still way, way, WAY more to get!

Comments

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

“Poverty tends to multiply itself because fucking requires no capabilities of complex cognitive thinking. It's instinctive behavior.”
With all my respect I do think the problem is deeper. I doubt the poor people at India are less thinking than an average American and instead, middle Asian or specifically Indian much more alive with brain it seems – I’ve heard that India now has more the child prodigies than any other country. The interesting thing is that at communists China alike as at Soviet Russia were conducted the experiments under society with changing of way of life, changing the national traditions, changing cultural directions, with direct prohibition to make children at China and this changes had led to dramatic consequences as at whole post Soviet territory as at China and strangely poor people at Russia and at China don’t want now make children… again, the near countries of Muslim traditions are prosper with popularity, India – Chinese neighbor – prosper and China couldn’t get back on a track… I think, that the most problem is how people live, I mean, their way of day to day life. Industrialization gives not much to person but takes all his time with no place to child at a plant while not so long ago the peasants were producing all they had needed – clothes, food, houses – yes, productivity was extremely small but sufficient - and were able to spend all day long together with children around as many tropical countries are doing right now sharing the global achievements such as pants as well…

[matrixmann]

Admittedly, okay, the structures of society also play a role. How it works in itself.

I think... regarding Muslim countries, for example, I also often call people to not get euphoric too quickly about the idea "education and wealth makes people want fewer children".
It's not as self-evident that people take the same path there like the Christian and the European world and reduce the numbers of children couples have if they can get all of them to survive and grow into adults.
The Muslim world also has strange cultural customs/thoughts like this: "If I get richer, I can afford myself more wives and even even more children".
And therefore it shouldn't be thought of as "a safe deal" if Muslim countries get to accumulate more material wealth.
People can indeed think and function every different about this topic.

My guess is... Getting Islamic culture to understand the fact that they can't have dozens of children with several wives because overpopulation of the world with humans is a serious problem that may bring the base for a living into danger for everyone around the world (e. g. because the natural resources all have to share don't get more in masss) - I think this is going to be a real challenge.