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Originally Posted by Kayra
??? Could you expand on this statement please?
That would be Al Pacino that said that... mind you, he was playing the devil at the time. 
The global population has never been impacted by more then 1% even in the midst of the worst of recorded plagues. Darwinism at work. |
Ok but I feel we are a bit off-topic. Should the moderaters start a new Form "Darwin re-visited"?
Thanks for Al Pacino I wondered where it came from. I love that quote.
Thanks for all the information from both of you. I will have a BIG THINK and get back to you.
Just a few quick points on the plague/disease etc
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In winter the disease seemed to disappear, but only because fleas--which were now helping to carry it from person to person--are dormant then. Each spring, the plague attacked again, killing new victims. After five years 25 million people were dead--one-third of Europe's people.
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The plague left a cell-mutation that gives people in Northern Europe some protection from it and also now to HIV/AIDs. The further north you go the better the protection Norway is c20% S.France/England maybe 6%
Africa 0%. you could check the exact %s
The 1918 bird flu did not leave any good mutations to my knowledge. (If the next one starts we may find out?). Maybe 40 million people died. People weren't around to count.see
http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
OK.
there has never been more than a 1% decimation (10%?)of TOTAL word population I won't argue. I don't know. I think this has happened because of luck and geographical isolation. We are no longer geographically isolated. The plague figures give cause to pause 33% of the total population is high. That was due to trading in little wooden ships and camels from China across the Mediterranean pond. Now we have 747s and big metal ships going everywhere.(People still die in the USA due to plague.(1in 7 who get it die that's now)
I do know that many races have been completely wiped of the planet. The Tasmanian Aborigine Nation and many other Aboriginal Nations in Aust.
In S.America perhaps 10million+ people died in the Amazon alone due to Spanish bugs. In the space of one lifetime. 99.9% of the population died.
A similar thing happened in European Invasions in other parts of the Americas. Mostly due to new diseases being introduced.
OK so we MAY end up with a bit of resistance but what has been lost?. It is a very wasteful system. Is nature that wasteful? We seem to be REDUCING genetic diversity not increasing it. How does this help a species survive? It is not a natural selection of the best on offer.The Galapagos islands increased diversity.
I guess "Super-Bug" is a bit melodramatic (but in my defense no more so than Bush's WMDs) but with modern communication,hopeless anti-virals and anew Bird flu that targets the young and healthy -well lets just hope it stays in chickens (And lets hope the Primates keep the other 9 Aids viruses they have they they haven't given us yet.)
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