"Capitol" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/04/17 17:04, TimW wrote:
On 25/04/17 11:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Wars are a natural way to eliminate young males of breeding age when
the
population exceeds the ability of the land to sustain them in the style
to which they wish to become accustomed.

The trick is to ensure the right young males get killed.
Without too much destruction of property

Nuclear weapons are not very good at that.


Utter ****. There are figures. I can't be bothered to look up the actual
estimates


But of course they are nothing like this at all.


but something like this:

Napoleonic Wars, casualties:
95% soldiers/combatants 5% civilians, women, children
WW1
85% combatants 15% civilians
WW2
60% combatants 40% civilians
Late 20th Century Wars
20% combatants 80% civilians
Now, Iraq, Syria: casualties
5% combatants 95% civilians, women,children.

So modern warfare has become the high tech slaughter of innocent people.
That isn't just what ISIS do, it's what the British Army do too, and the
USA are very good at it. Civilian killing.

So the trick is to kill everybody foreign, keep your own military safely
out of harms way so casualties are way down in small numbers, and still
claim your brave lads are doing a fine thing for their country.

Drones, Cruise missiles etc are very good for that.

TW


Idle hand waving invention of data to support a handwavey hypothesis.

You are a climate scientist and I claim my £5.

Of course its so easy to claim your 'freedom fighters are actually
civilians isn't it?

Anyway the point is there are too many people in poor countries because
we cracked infant mortality, and they didn't do contraception, so they
end up in war zones dying that way instead.

Its a rough world outside Islington.

The present third world mess was forecast very accurately in the Economist
a few years back.

Nope.

People breed to exceed the capacity of the food supply to feed them.

Not anymore, not even in China or India anymore.

War is the natural result.

How odd that the current war is in Syria which has one
of the lower breeding rates and has no problem feeding
everyone when there isnt a full scale civil war going on.

In spades with Bosnia which actually has a lower birth rate than Britain.

Nice theory, pity about the real world.