Posted on 02/03/2019 10:41:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Oh, and slave ships tossed 8 million of their cargo overboard during the period they were being transported to the continent”
The carnage was legendary and sharks still follow the same route.
Just ridiculous and this is a university? 1400 killed per day, preposterous.
RE: That would be from 1400 to 1599. If we start with Columbus’ landing in 1492 that means 56 million Indians were killed in a period of 108 years. That works out to 1,420 Indians a day. Those guys were pretty busy, I’d say.
It was NOT a slaughter or deliberate genocide, the white man brought the European disease to the Americas via tainted blankets and other things — SMALL POX for instance.
There wasn’t even 56 million people TOTAL in North America back then. 1860 a year before the Civil war, the US population was only 38 million. The left always boosts the population to make it look as bad as possible, I’ve read some idiots even claiming the US killed 300 million Indians which back then would have been 1/3 of the entire worlds population LOL!
I am sure glad we killed all those masses of Buffalo! They created a HUGE carbon foot print, more than all of our cities combined. But doing THAT we avoided climate change! Whew!
That was close!
Oh yes, always the evil white-man’s fault.
Wait, isn’t it evil to deforest? Were those Indians deforesting? OMG!
These jackasses can’t stop.
Prominent Ducth Scientist Declares his Dissent: “You can’t stop climate change by simply turning a CO2 button”-Doomsday scenario becoming a kind of religion.
https://www.thegwpf.com/prof-guus-berkhout-stop-the-doom-and-gloom-mongering/
Ttuth be told...After little Phil Sheridan burned Virginia to the ground, literally, with the exception of big cities and certain mansions that they used for hospitals and Army Headquarters Etc... He was sent out west by then President Grant to kill off the Buffalo which was the Indian food supply.
What kind of environmental impact would the absence of millions upon millions of Buffalo I have?
Who killed off the passenger pigeon which would blanket it the sky for days. In fact there’s a report that once the passenger pigeons spent two days going in and around town in the midwest, and when they were done and had gone past the town the town was literally white with passenger pigeon droppings. Did the elimination of the passenger pigeon have any impact environmentally?
I think the answer those two questions we have to remember an oft-repeated quote from the late the astrophysicist Carl Sagan when he said that “Extinction is the rule and survival is the exception.”
Earth will abide and in some cases it might have been more pleasant with certain species of animals around or it even could have been on Pleasant with certain species of animals around. Environmentally I think that it might not have had that big of an impact.
But I still loathe Phil Sheridan for what he did.
I was going to say - 56 MIL in a century? Before whites really did much of anything?
And THOSE were mostly the Spaniards. Maybe not perfectly evil, but much more simplistic and brutal than the average European (I credit that to the genetic AND cultural influence of Moslems).
“The carnage was legendary and sharks still follow the same route.”
In seagull and Buzzard lore it is referred to as “the happy times”
Spinning the wheel on causation yet again.
I've read that the Indians burned the Plains so often and thoroughly (to kill buffalo and other animals) that it wouldn't be so treeless today if they had not done so.
As well we should.
There were 37 million people in Mexico, Central and South America alone. “The Americas” includes all of America not just North America.
And yet it didn't prevent the Cherokees from impregnating so many white women that 99 percent of Americans today can claim that they are "part-Cherokee."
That’s what they are implying. I posted this night before last and you are the only one so far who nailed the premise of the article.
So now Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc., etc., are to blame for today’s massive cold weather we have been having. IDIOTS!!!!!
So when a third of Europe died from the plague the continent should have froze over.
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