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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 04:08 pm
Time magazine’s Alex Perry knows how to prevent the next Darfur:
As climate change shrinks the availability of arable land and natural resources, Africa will need the developed world to do its part to curb the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
In support of his theory, Perry quotes UK foreign secretary Margaret Beckett.
As climate change shrinks the availability of arable land…
Like a certain plastic turkey, I predict that myth will be quite long-lived despite the contrary evidence.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 02 at 02:24 PM • permalink
- Agreed, Spiny Norman. The Sahara has been “advancing south” ever since I’ve been alive. If that were actually true, it would have reached Capetown by now.
Intertribal warfare in Africa is centuries old, as is slavery, genocide, endemic disease, and starvation. Until Africans can overcome their ethnic grudges and their love of power-hungry demagogues, the continent will remain a basket case.
A growing number of experts believe the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is best understood as a contest between too many people on too little land.
Oh I can’t stand it anymore. Just who are these so-called “experts”? Acolytes of the Goreacle? Anyone who would make such a ridiculous assertion only demonstrates a woeful ignorance of what occurred in Rwanda. What does the warmmonger crowd want us to believe now? That if only we can eliminate greenhouse gases, we can achieve peace on earth? They truly are getting dangerous.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 05 02 at 03:36 PM • permalink
- A bloke in a shopping centre yesterday tried to get me to sign a petition against the “genocidal violence against women in Sudan”. I asked “Are you going to send in troops?” He said “That depends…” I just walked off laughing. He, however, didn’t seem amused.
If I’d stuck around to argue with him, I’d have reminded him that ten years ago his kind were signing petitions about the abuse of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. But his kind didn’t seem very happy when the Taliban were overthrown. I wonder why?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 05 02 at 04:16 PM • permalink
- #1. El Cid: How about you start with a reasoned debate with the Arabs.
That’s rather oxymoronic isn’t it, El Cid? I didn’t know there was such a thing.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 02 at 06:32 PM • permalink
- Running out of arable land? Bull hockey. In the United States (which produces gazillions of fruit, meat and vegetables) approx. half the farmland is fallow on any given year. Of course, all those harvesters needed to take up Africa’s slack burn horrid petroleum fuels. What to do? What to do?Posted by bill schumm on 2007 05 02 at 06:53 PM • permalink
- What a disgusting article, turning the tragedy of that terrible conflict into a rant against climate change.
And perhaps he should have looked up Africa’s desserts are in spectacular retreat before shooting his mouth off.
The basic theory of global warming (CO2 enhancing the amount of that far more predominant greenhouse gas, water vapour) should lead to a warmer, wetter world. Now, I can accept some areas might be affected the other way. But it stretches credibility to hear and read all the time that every part of the planet in need of water is just going to get drier, and every part already prone to floods, will get wetter. Always a lose/lose scenario. It’s that sort of thing which forces me to manually turn down the bullshit meter alarm.
- forbes—Yes, the heat is melting the steel in the earth and making it sink too deep to reach. GOOGLE IT PEOPLE!Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 02 at 08:32 PM • permalink
- #13, we’re too busy blaming the government for everything.
But when we get sick of that…ooooh!!!!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 05 03 at 05:39 AM • permalink
- #10 Dminor, I just don’t know what to say to thesse people anymore. Perry and his ilk are just completely impervious to facts.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 03 at 08:10 AM • permalink
- AlburyShifton wrote:
If I’d stuck around to argue with him, I’d have reminded him that ten years ago his kind were signing petitions about the abuse of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. But his kind didn’t seem very happy when the Taliban were overthrown. I wonder why?
Because the fashionable thing to do is to whine and protest horrible treatment in pestholes around the world. You aren’t supposed to actually do anything about it.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 05 03 at 09:48 AM • permalink
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Now if you could just wisk a plan together to stop this Darfur. It would seem that they are running out of people and Time.
How about you start with a reasoned debate with the Arabs.