Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Kill the Economy [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,966 posts)when the merits of the message include getting rid of agriculture and medicine (which you have promoted on this thread) despite the facts that the body count needed would run in the millions, if not Billions, then of course I can see why you do not want to focus on your actual message, it is because it is a hard sell, completely contrary to the interests of everyone from rich to poor.
You keep mentioning one study that did not even use an affirmative yes or no term to say that agriculture made women die in childbirth, well, aside form the fact the study you quote never gave a clear yes or no, there are many experiments you can do to prove that study quite wrong. Go to any planned parenthood and ask the ladies if they want start offering people penny royal tea instead of surgery (an herb that was an old abortion standby), of course , when the Doctor laughs you out of there, because herbal remedies that kill the fetus have a bad habit of killing the mother. Do mention many of the old means of contraception, such as :
http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2011/10/07/herbal-contraception-in-ancient-times.htm
http://www.sisterzeus.com/HContra.htm
and they will tell you even the best of these will not work as well as the medicines. But hey, it's only those uppity modern women that have concerns; imagine if they lived in the hunter gatherer utopia, you know, the ones famous for treating like cattle, slaves and farmhands?