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.
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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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They are already denying some children the normal biological hormones through blockers, what’s a little less food??
As the alarmists become increasingly aware that they’re losing the climate action battle, they can be expected to advance more and more asinine theories for at least keeping the final score respectable. This is the latest of them.
What a crock of shi!.
It can not make one millimeter difference.
Because if the majority of short men mate with short woman that then leaves all the tall men for the tall woman.
We as farmers use genetics when breeding our animals so if we wanted short animals ( which we don’t ) we would not use any tall animals as sires or mothers.
I cannot believe that people can be so ignorant .
Randy Newman provided some input on this subject.
So the NYT is literally saying f*ck short people?
Save the planet, become a Climate Homunculus. Short guys are thanking the NYTimes. Now the might get more dates with hot, scared (of CAGW) women. ha ha ha ha ha
How does one “embrace fewer inches”. Short of (sorry for the pun) having surgery to shorten one’s legs, there’s not a helluva lot anyone can do about their “too tall” height.
Good luck getting women to mate with small men. Virtue signaling isn’t what women are thinking about when they want sex.
It’s a slippery slope! First, short. Then, thin, unattractive, low IQ. Pro sports: no one over six foot, 200 lbs allowed, to be adjusted downward in the future. No mass produced clothing, shoes, etc. to be available for large people. No large, tall Phds, doctors, engineers, pilots, etc. And it is not discrimination. No, we must save the planet. Heard it here first.
The shallow delusions of NYT and Mara Altman.
Perhaps Mara recommends that mankind return to living in trees and only eating seasonal fruits and greens?
Except, most of mankind does not live in tropical conditions full time.
Plus, Earth is still in a protracted condition known as an “Ice Age”. Larger animal keep warmer in cold conditions than smaller animals.
Or does Mara suggest that people mate with short very hairy individuals so they can build up a thick fur for the end of this interglacial and it’s infrequent short Optimums?
The idea that we could possibly “wreck” the planet, even if we wanted, such that another planet (or body) of the Solar system would be nice in comparison, is frankly amusing and tells a lot about the mindset of the writer.
“Mate with”? “Mate”? What are we, cattle?
Did they add any financial advice?
Maybe for your children’s future you should invest now in a company that makes stepladders?
(If they don’t get rich, at least they’d be able reach the family heirlooms you hid on the top shelf!)