Gordon wrote on Mar 12
th, 2019 at 11:17am:
ON ABC Sydney Breakfast today, I'll post the link to the interview/transcript when it's available.
It was about global warming, and they mentioned that people are deciding not to have children because of fear of the future impact of global warming, and left it for Goodall to comment.
She said, the wrong people are not having children.
In Africa they've traditionally had a high birth rate due to high infant mortality and so their children can work the land, but now they have no work, etc etc.
I wonder who are the right people to have children ?
It really depends on the environment and situation. Some traits are desirable at times, but no so other times. For example, the level of obesity is high in developed world. The availability of excess nutrition causes the body to retain more fat and protein. Sometimes lead to diabetes. This ability to retain energy is critical in early human society, where availability of nutrition is low. Those who can retain better, survives the winters, and passes the gene on, those who cant dies off. Harsh but hey, its nature. However, with advancement of technology, we are living longer, and have more nutrition, and therefore, the same ability to retain nutrition suddenly becomes a hindrance.
The same with African ladies. Those who can reproduce more in harsher environment, then their genes gets passed down. Those who cant, their lineage dies off. So in effect, you can say that their gene is superior to those white females, who would lost their ability to reproduce during their anorexia stage as their lineage would have died off long ago in a more harsher environment.