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Drought Leads To War.

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Drought Leads To War.
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Drought Leads To War.
August 5, 2014 at 12:39 pm
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 5, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Jared Diamond had a chapter devoted to the Anasazi in Collapse. It's been a few year since I read it, but as I recall Diamond stressed deforestation, soil mismanagement and the fact that they didn't produce anything and were entirely dependent on importation from surrounding cultures. These factors set-up the drought knock-out blow (El Nino driven???).
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 5, 2014 at 1:31 pm
Amazing how starving to death is considered less palatable then killing.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 5, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Quote:When you ain't got nothin you got nothin to lose

Curiously, the Israelis can't seem to absorb this lesson vis a vis Gaza.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 5, 2014 at 1:56 pm
(August 5, 2014 at 1:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:When you ain't got nothin you got nothin to lose

Curiously, the Israelis can't seem to absorb this lesson vis a vis Gaza.


If they haven't learned in 2000 years that there was never a god to have chosen them, then they wouldn't learn now they can't act as if there is a god and he did choose them.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 6, 2014 at 12:31 pm
True enough, Chuck. The idea that "god loves me" makes most people act like intolerable pricks.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 6, 2014 at 12:59 pm
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 6, 2014 at 1:14 pm
(August 6, 2014 at 12:59 pm)Jenny A Wrote: It isn't drought so much as famine, whatever the famine's cause, that leads to violence. Hungary people have a tendency to get violent.
You have something against Hungarians? :p
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 6, 2014 at 1:52 pm
Get ready for the great California civil war.
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RE: Drought Leads To War.
August 8, 2014 at 9:34 pm
(August 6, 2014 at 1:52 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Get ready for the great California civil war.

Get ready for the Amerocanadian wars.
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