The Evil of Environemtnalism: Ghengis Khan greenest conqueror for killing millions?

[teapartysamurai]

Unlike modern day climate change, however, the Mongol invasion actually cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history's cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card? The reality may be a bit difficult for today's environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire — with a high body count.

Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.

Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended "green" consequences of his invasions, Pongratz hopes that her research can lead to land-use changes that someday might alter how future historians rate our environmental impact.

Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

And what does that mean? "Land use?" So, let's reforest fields? Screw 40 million who need to eat?

This really exposes the mind set of the true environmentalist. They want to make you think they are "good people." They want to "save the planet."

But save it at whose expsense? YOURS!

This really exposes why we need to get these people out of power and never let them near anything close to power again.

Because their entire agenda isn't to make the planet better for you. It's to make the planet "better" at YOUR expense!

YOU are just a carbon footprint to them.

 

[Ravi]

Dubya is the one that killed all the people...wtf are you babbling about you moron?

 

[teapartysamurai]

Dubya is the one that killed all the people...wtf are you babbling about you moron?

You sputter Bush Derangement Syndrome and I'm the one babbling?

Typical! A liberal can't spin is way out of liberalism being nailed and all he can do is sputter:

But . . . But . . . BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ravi]

You know the best thing about you, teepee? You make RGS seem less retarded than he actually is.

 

[editec]

No doubt that a good cleansing pandemic would do much to help us cope with the problem of humanity's increasingly heavy carbon footfalls.

 

[teapartysamurai]

You know the best thing about you, teepee? You make RGS seem less retarded than he actually is.

When liberals lose they simply attack you personally.

Pretty obvious, that's what's happening here.

 

[teapartysamurai]

No doubt that a good cleansing pandemic would do much to help us cope with the problem of humanity's increasingly heavy carbon footfalls.

Yeah, nice idea (/sarc).

Pretty obvious who enviro-whackos consider the enemy.

Paraphrasing on Pogo, they have met the enemy and the enemy is US!

 

[Douger]

There's plenty of room for 6 billion idiots. Simply abandon the cities.Humans are like rats. They have a thang for gathering in one place.
Fuck that.

 

[Retread Ol' 37]

Unlike modern day climate change, however, the Mongol invasion actually cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history's cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card? The reality may be a bit difficult for today's environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire — with a high body count.

Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.

Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended "green" consequences of his invasions, Pongratz hopes that her research can lead to land-use changes that someday might alter how future historians rate our environmental impact.

Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

And what does that mean? "Land use?" So, let's reforest fields? Screw 40 million who need to eat?

This really exposes the mind set of the true environmentalist. They want to make you think they are "good people." They want to "save the planet."

But save it at whose expsense? YOURS!

This really exposes why we need to get these people out of power and never let them near anything close to power again.

Because their entire agenda isn't to make the planet better for you. It's to make the planet "better" at YOUR expense!

YOU are just a carbon footprint to them.

No, valeyard, this does not expose the mindset of the true environmentalist. All it does is demonstrate that you are prone to use irrelevant tangents and red herrings in your arguments.

Neg'd for sheer stupidity.

 

[BlindBoo]

Silly consumptionist.

"Based on the knowledge we have gained from the past, we are now in a position to make land-use decisions that will diminish our impact on climate and the carbon cycle."

Doesn't mean 40 million humans must be doom to starvation. Just the opposite. We need to find ways to feed the growing population utilizing less land resources. We could feed the world if politics didn't get in the way.

 

[Old Rocks]

Unlike modern day climate change, however, the Mongol invasion actually cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history's cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card? The reality may be a bit difficult for today's environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire — with a high body count.

Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.

Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended "green" consequences of his invasions, Pongratz hopes that her research can lead to land-use changes that someday might alter how future historians rate our environmental impact.

Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

And what does that mean? "Land use?" So, let's reforest fields? Screw 40 million who need to eat?

This really exposes the mind set of the true environmentalist. They want to make you think they are "good people." They want to "save the planet."

But save it at whose expsense? YOURS!

This really exposes why we need to get these people out of power and never let them near anything close to power again.

Because their entire agenda isn't to make the planet better for you. It's to make the planet "better" at YOUR expense!

YOU are just a carbon footprint to them.

Is that the kind of places that you get your history? No wonder you come off as such a dummy. Ghengis Khan was a rather more complex person, and, for a man of that period, capable ruler and conqueror than most histories indicate.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Doesn't mean 40 million humans must be doom to starvation. Just the opposite. We need to find ways to feed the growing population utilizing less land resources. We could feed the world if politics didn't get in the way.

Actually, you can produce more food per acre farming sustainably in living soil without chemicals than you can in industrial monoculture. Of course, you have to sacrifice Big Agra's profits...

Study: Organic Farming More Efficient | LiveScience

 

[Skull Pilot]

There's plenty of room for 6 billion idiots. Simply abandon the cities.Humans are like rats. They have a thang for gathering in one place.
Fuck that.

This may be the one and only point on which we will ever agree.

 

[G.T.]

holy shit at this....lol, what are you on? Meth? Crack? Heroin?

 

[editec]

No doubt that a good cleansing pandemic would do much to help us cope with the problem of humanity's increasingly heavy carbon footfalls.

Yeah, nice idea (/sarc).

Pretty obvious who enviro-whackos consider the enemy.

Paraphrasing on Pogo, they have met the enemy and the enemy is US!

The kind of environmental whacko who thinks everybody (including other environmentalists included) are the enemy is a fairly rare bird, indeed.

I actually know one of those humanity be damned its all about "the trees!" enviro-nuts. He hates me.

Of the perhaps 200 people I know who are or were environmental activists exactly ONE OF THEM is the kind of idiot that you are describing.

 

[BlindBoo]

Doesn't mean 40 million humans must be doom to starvation. Just the opposite. We need to find ways to feed the growing population utilizing less land resources. We could feed the world if politics didn't get in the way.

Actually, you can produce more food per acre farming sustainably in living soil without chemicals than you can in industrial monoculture. Of course, you have to sacrifice Big Agra's profits...

Study: Organic Farming More Efficient | LiveScience

Mine was not an endorsement of Big Ag. Just a repudidation of the premise by TPS that enviromentalist want to kill off anyone.

 

[RDD_1210]

The OP actually made me laugh. Thank you for that.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Dubya is the one that killed all the people...wtf are you babbling about you moron?

The muslim terroists started it idiot. Get over it. Obama is a much worse potus ever.