NY Times Guest Essay By Mara Altman: “Short people don’t just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth’s growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival (and not just because more of us will be able to jam into spaceships when we are forced off this planet we wrecked).”
“When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations. Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet.”
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This sounds eerily similar to other calls to reduce the size of people.
Flashback:
By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJanuary 4, 2023 2:03 PM
By Mara Altman – Ms. Altman is a writer and the author of “Gross Anatomy.”
Excerpts: …short is better, and it is the future.
“I don’t want tall people to feel bad about themselves,” Samaras said, sincerely, “but the time is right to be short.” … Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior…
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Parents boast about how their kids “eat them out of house and home” and grow out of shoes the very week a new pair is bought as if it’s a badge of honor. My children eat like gerbils — it’s fine, they are healthy — and because of their low percentiles we save money and food, and they fit into the same pair of shoes for a year. Growing like a weed? No, thanks. I’ll take growing like a cactus.
Short people don’t just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth’s growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival (and not just because more of us will be able to jam into spaceships when we are forced off this planet we wrecked).
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When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations. Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet.
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In some corners of the world, a celebration of short stature is actually happening. Arne Hendriks, a 6-foot-4-inch lecturer and artist, uses performance and exhibitions to encourage people to embrace fewer inches. He’s even restricted dairy from his sons’ diets and only allows them minimal sugar in an attempt to limit their growth, saving them from the ills of height. “It’s time for tall people to get off our high horses,” Mr. Hendriks said. “Don’t be overly confident when you are tall because you are probably going to die younger, have more health problems and you are polluting more.”
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Pick the smaller mind NYT subscribers first, because a social media climate advocate said so.
I’m old enough to remember when the New York Times at least pretended to be a serious publication.
Go ahead short Progressives. Force veganism on your infants and children. After the economic collapse you’ve been striving for finally happens, it won’t be the short and weak that will be surviving and passing on their genes.
But women prefer men of above average height. I expect that’s our fault too.
That’s because in the dim and distant past taller men were better able to protect their women from danger. Once the small people are all the rage the same thing will start to happen again – evolution. 🙂
They want me (6ft) to mate with short people?
Ok – I’m willing to make this sacrifice:
Emilia Clarke (5ft 2)
Scarlett Johansson (5ft 3)
Salma Hayek (5ft 2)
Kylie Minogue (5ft)
Eva Longoria (5ft 2)
…and the list goes on …
We appreciate your self-sacrifice.
“Short”? Please. It’s “vertically challenged”. 😁
Another comic like rag that is to be laughed at
I dont believe this is real though, amusing as it would be. To stupid to be true.
I’m a short arse
If any good looking, fit ecomentalist ladies want to mate with me, I’m available
Mingers need not apply (hmmm that probably narrows the field down a lot)
It is the sign of our deteriorating civilization that people don’t line up to slap the shit out of these fatuous attention-seekers.
So that is why Biden is allowing all the “short” illegals in.
While the article is rather humorous, this has been going on for a very long time. One only needs to look at the current BMI (Body Mass Index) that is used quite incorrectly at any medical visit. Weight divided by height squared.
In 1832, Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian statistician developed the mathematics behind the BMI. He used the physical characteristics of his fellow countrymen as the basis.
Ancel Keys in the 1970’s then got the charts distributed into doctors offices. In the 1970’s also, life insurance companies used the BMI to set premiums.
BMI works somewhat well for most people under 5 feet 11 inches. But anything over that height runs into many problems which are usually ignored.
On an interesting side note, if we ever get off this planet, most science fiction speculates that height will increase due to the lesser gravity of space travel and other planets to be colonized.
When resources are scarce, dwarfism can help a species to survive. As the pygmy mammoths found on the Channel Islands, it works — until it doesn’t! It is a stop gap measure that leads to extinction if something isn’t done about the shortage of resources.
Some people confuse surviving with living a full life.
I’m going to use all of mine 6.5 feet to screw the Planet… Wait for it!
Just when you think they could not be more stupid…
Not short, which may be fat, and metabolically disordered. Are they targeting women and post-pubescent girls?
That said, Efficient Lives Matter (ELM). Throw another baby on the barbie, and bray to whatever mortal god or goddess redistributes change.
“I don’t want tall people to feel bad about themselves,” Samaras said, sincerely, “but the time is right to be short.” …
And I don’t want stupid people to feel bad about being stupid.
Freudian slip?
These days it seems it is impossible to make a distinction between the NYT’s funny pages and the rest of the paper!
Actually, people will continue to mate with those whom they consider attractive, and height (or lack of) is only one of many criteria.
And height really isn’t much of an indicator of resource use. Neanderthals were actually a bit shorter than many modern humans, but they were strict carnivores. So a Neanderthal (even at only about 5 1/2 feet tall for males) alive today would consume way more meat than most any Homo Sapiens alive today. Only the far north native peoples traditionally ate mostly animal flesh (in the form of marine mammal fat and fish) almost exclusively.
I assumed the article originated in Babylon Bee, but I wasn’t all that surprised to read that it was the New York Times.
NYT outdoes the Bee on a regular basis.
The advantages of having a short population will be offset by the need for more step ladders.
You know, we used to put people like this at the New York Times in sanatoriums and then electroshock them.
“When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations.”
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This is utterly incorrect. When fertile couples mate, often they do not think of their heights. The urge to procreate has long been know to be strong at the moment of coupling, with a “do it now, fix the consequences later” situation. What follows is millions of unwanted pregnancies and millions of forced abortions. People often know that this is undesirable, but it deters them not in the heat of the moment.
These authors imagine that they can change this well-recognised strong course of nature my making a plea. Their plea is untested. It lacks prior measurement data. If people are going to stop because their partner is too tall, they are going to stop if they are about to create an unwanted child.
History shows that they do not do either in a significant number of events.
This idea has failure written all over it. Do the authors really imagine that tall people are going to change their ways? As a 6ft 3in male, I talk from experience.
Geoff S
“Short people don’t just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth’s growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival”
Wouldn’t it be easier and more efficient to “fight” obesity? Becoming and staying obese requires more resources than being/staying non-obese.
Dividing people into groups then setting them against each other. Identity politics. Some humans will do that on whatever basis they think will gain traction at the time
If we limited people’s diet to just above starving, allotted them a Japanese sized apartment as their space on earth, fed them bugs and single celled food stuffs and kept them happy with narcotics and electronic games, why what a glorious world that would be. No wonder the depopulation bomb is coming.