Climate modelling of new data from the Aztec Codex Cihuacoatl has identified a relationship with important implications for global warming mitigation. The research suggests a strong causal pathway exists between climate change and Aztec rituals of “nourishing the gods” with blood sacrifice.At least... I hope it's tongue-in-cheek.
The evidence supports a revival of (humane) human sacrifice (HHS) as a mechanism for retarding environmental degradation and reducing dangerous climate change. HHS also would improve crop yields by allowing more effective control of surface temperature and rainfall; create anthropogenic biochar for soil enhancement and long-term carbon enrichment, especially in tropical environments with low-carbon sequestration capacity and depleted ferrasol and acrisol zones; and reduce population growth rates as the Earth’s carrying capacity comes under further pressure this century....
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Michael Kile is author of No Room at Nature’s Mighty Feast: Reflections on the Growth of Humankind. He is also a Perth playwright. Grateful acknowledgement is made to Mexico’s Institute Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, the Bibliothèque de l’AssemblĂ©e Nationale in Paris, and the World Climate Research Programme for research assistance.
Monday, 20 July 2009
We Must All Make Sacrifices To Stop Global Warming
From Quadrant Magazine, with apologies to Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" : The Aztec Solution:
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Why not kill two birds with one stone, so to speak? Sacrifice Al-Quaeda members. I can't think of any other use for them.
The problem is, "we must all make sacrifices" is properly translated as "I will make a sacrifice; you will be a sacrifice."
Kinda like the "Let's take a private jet to the Global Warming conference in Bali" idea.
--Laserlight
Human sacrifice has absolutely nothing to do with global warming. It's all about the pirates!
I think its a stupid piece of climate change denial by people who like their science convienant.
The tone of that crowd becomes more rabid and in-group in defense; the horrible truth, "I'm dead wrong", can't be faced.
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