tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post8033439044750340723..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Old Fashioned Family PlanningWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-54559218684001518222013-01-07T08:34:34.690-08:002013-01-07T08:34:34.690-08:00You write well. Those who make it through the comi...You write well. Those who make it through the coming bottleneck will not write. It will be forbidden.Social media are anti-socialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219005681615188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-76180426490533926062013-01-06T14:11:19.559-08:002013-01-06T14:11:19.559-08:00Thanks. I hadn't heard of that one. Other cu...Thanks. I hadn't heard of that one. Other cultures had contraceptive herbs, from what I've read. None have reached Coca-Cola status yet.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-6784423695039610402013-01-05T05:03:29.136-08:002013-01-05T05:03:29.136-08:00Thanks! :) An other interesting anecdote:
Did the...Thanks! :) An other interesting anecdote:<br /><br />Did the Romans drive a birth-control plant to extinction?<br /><br />http://io9.com/5923071/did-the-romans-drive-a-birth+control-plant-to-extinctionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-51444304818201310672013-01-04T13:50:57.482-08:002013-01-04T13:50:57.482-08:00Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way.
85 Taboos on sex...Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way.<br />85 Taboos on sex: not while menstruating, prior to deer hunting, during the two years of nursing, while partner was engaged in sacred activities (medicine quest, dance, ceremony, etc.). They believed that sex weakened a person spiritually. Sex taboos provided a form of birth control.<br /><br />Peter Freuchen, Book of the Eskimos<br />97 Girl babies are often strangled or exposed. 98 Babies aren't weaned until 3, 4, or older. 116 Babies aren’t weaned until the mother becomes pregnant again.<br /><br />Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Harmless People [Bushmen]<br />159 Birth is usually joyous. Orphans are eagerly adopted by relatives. Babies that cannot be supported are destroyed. Women are expected to destroy crippled or badly deformed children. If a season is hard, and she already has one nursing child, the new child is destroyed. 160 After a baby is born, there is a delay before it "comes to life" — when the mother's love for the child becomes overwhelming. She must think first about the child who is already alive. This is very painful, so in tough times, the Bushmen prefer to abstain from intercourse.<br /><br />I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said that in the traditional Karuk way of life, men and women did not sleep together. Men lived in one dwelling, and women and children lived in another.<br /><br />Yes, sedentary societies produced a lot more food, and had more fertile wombs. <br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-53170318739453328322013-01-02T17:09:59.092-08:002013-01-02T17:09:59.092-08:00Normative infanticide (and other paleolithic forms...Normative infanticide (and other paleolithic forms of reproductive control including lower body fat, later menarche, and breastfeeding) are discussed in Mark Nathan Cohen's <i>Health and the Rise of Civilization</i> (Yale University Press, 1989), starting on page 87. It seems that birth control issues are largely a realm of a sedentary society. Ivy Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-59295194425748831032013-01-02T16:00:33.951-08:002013-01-02T16:00:33.951-08:00Yes sir! We cling to our sacred reproductive Righ...Yes sir! We cling to our sacred reproductive Rights, but toss our sacred reproductive Responsibilities overboard. This makes for a bumpy ride.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-86847256493271114072013-01-01T05:54:33.360-08:002013-01-01T05:54:33.360-08:00The Greeks emphasized the greater good of the comm...The Greeks emphasized the greater good of the community, and many "pre-civlized" peoples, like the Native Americans, considered the next seven generations in every personal choice.<br /><br />In the modern world, but particularly in the US, we have so over-emphasized the "rights" of individuals and the primacy of personal autonomy over the well-being of the community or the natural world that we shudder at the thought of sacrificing a nascent life (even a deformed one or a fetus) for the balance, stability and sustainability of an entire nation or world. And, at the other end, we go to "heroic" lengths to extend life quantitatively, at great expense to society, while largely ignoring the quality of the life between the alpha and omega points.Robert Riversonghttp://riversong.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com