The New York Times, “everything fit to print” fame, came up with this doozy by Mara Altman. Seems Mara believes “mating with shorter people is a step towards a greener planet’ since smaller individuals are “inherent conservationists.”
Related: Tall People are Killing The Planet
So here is her rationale: Taller people take up more resources, food, water, and energy but die earlier, while shorter people live longer.
Wondering if Mara is president of the Hobbit Rights Foundation International, or something. Okay, kind of a cheap shot but doesn’t it seem logical that if shorter people live longer than taller they will consume resources longer thus the overall consumption of those resources will pretty much equal out?
I don’t know who does these kinds of studies or why papers like the Times print them. It would seem to me they open themselves up to accusations of racism, considering blacks tend to be taller on average than not.
I suppose the editors risk a backlash from the environmentalists, on the other hand, if they fail to publish even if this theory has something of a glaring hole in it.
This is the kind of rock and a hard place, darned if they do, darned if they don’t, the liberal world often finds itself in. Consistently inconsistent is a term I often apply to them. Say one thing one day and then the opposite another day.
For instance, global warming. Thirty years ago, Al Gore assured us the world was doomed unless we took drastic action. The Arctic Ocean would be ice-free, tundra would thaw, releasing billions of gallons of methane gas poisoning the atmosphere, and coastal cities around the world would be underwater by 2012.
Little has changed, except now those experts are admitting these global changes take long periods of time so all of us who have challenged their theory have to be patient. Right like a thousand years or so?
How about another gem?
All white people are inherently racist. If history is correct, the only major culture that ever identified slavery for the evil it is and fought wars to abolish and make it illegal were white European Christians. The left ignores the black African princes who sold all those blacks to slavers in the first place.
Many current cultures still engage in slavery, including China, N. Korea, several Muslim nations, and a number of totalitarians that just call it by other names. These are generally excused by the liberal left. It’s only we white Americans who are evil, racist, and said to be an irredeemable race and culture.
I reject the left’s hateful accusations, and I’m proud of my people’s history. We evolved, grew, and overcame past evils, and there are few others who can say the same. We are not perfect, nor is any other, but many of us keep trying to improve in spite of the left’s best efforts to drive us back into the darkness. Hopefully, they will not prevail.
