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Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject:

sure would, youve got to believe it

misteralz · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject:

Martin · Neepster Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 663

"intelligent" - absolutely, along with compassionate, perceptive, kind and gentle.......

- a truly towering intellect that completely overlooks hundred of years of colonial exploitation, the "developed world's" exporting of global capitalism, general rape of the planet, and treating it as if we've got five of 'em.... couldn't agree more!

-if that be "intelligence", you'll find me with my thicket peers!

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Smooth Hound · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject:

when you look at it , its not only past colonialism, but the moodern day equivelent still in action, just done in another way, you could call it cold colonialism,
as for rivers , the reason there so far away is that someone has built a big dam to produce some c razy item , so the rivers dried, people have been displaced, add to that the pollution being pumped back out of the factories, and you can see the problem,
they could move nearer the river granted, thats just supposing there isnt a war going on over oil pipes or whatever.
then theres the problem for them that i originally opened this thread about

and thats that global warming is effecting these places much more (so far) than it is us, which as we all know has been caused by us not them, and that whilst we daudle around talking about it for yrs , instead of actually do something, then the results are obvious. where as it is actually a much more desperate problem than we (where we are lucky) realise.

Martin · Neepster Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 663

There were these ignorant, unintelligent savages, living a totally sustainable lifestyle, that had gone on for tens of thousands of years, and could have gone on for a similar period - and then along came us intelligent beings, who raped their countryside, captured many of them as slaves, forced them to grow crops that would deplete their natural resources, and generally showed them how to completely shaft a planet for all life within a few hundred years, and leave behind only a sterile, lifeless wasteland - that's civilisation and "intelligence" for you!

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IainC · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

One of the main reasons that they keep getting pregnant (IMO) is that a) they don't have or use contraception (if you had the money for it, you'd buy food instead), and b) the more kids you try and have, the more likely one of them will still be alive to look after you when you turn into an old wreck who can't look after themselves.

At the same time, I can see the thought process of "too many people in the world" and "natural selection".

Smooth Hound · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:17 pm Post subject:

its not natural selection though,

Smooth Hound · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject:

theres nothing natural about dams blocking your river,

IainC · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject: