Having experienced a wide range of human condition, from sky scraper multi-national corporate denizen to ditch-digging mud-dwelling manual labourer and lots of other jobs and places, the most natural human state is "Troppo".
Donald Duck discovered that several decades ago, basking in Troppo idyll having escaped the industrial revolution. But things went awry.
In reality those happy go lucky Maoris, Hawaiians, Fijians and others were murderous cannibals living nasty, brutish and short lives with women having far more children than the geography could contain, necessitating culling by one vicious means or another callous cruelty, normally involving adult male tribal conflict followed by celebratory dinners.
Examining African population age distributions from 20 years ago, it was obvious that across African countries, the huge population boom was going to end in Malthusian tears. So far, other than a few nasty places such as Rwanda, there hasn't been large scale culling, though AIDS has done some ravaging.
Perhaps China's cash flow and colonial political input will counterbalance the otherwise inevitable problems. The gap between the British leaving and Chinese arriving has not been happy. 200 million Chinese armed with cash and commerce should improve things. ElM and Huawei are off to a good start, preparing the ground for CDMA/OFDM-A to perform miracles.
Globalstar has a Nigerian gateway underway, and even the South African one might one day fire up. One could attach itself to ElM's and Huawei's fibre. Huawei might like to install one while they are there.
The key to a successful Troppo life is population control and access to cyberspace. Africa might yet become Troppo central = especially if there is reglaciation in Europe/Asia. It must be a pretty good place for humans since that was the world HQ for humans for 100,000 years. Some melanin adjustments would be a good idea for some of us whose ancestors spent too many millennia in the high latitudes. I'm already genetically endowed with some malarial resistance. Photovoltaic powered air conditioning with good insulation might be nice at times.
Mqurice
PS: Captain Cook was taking a chance, touring the Pacific Ocean teaching English to the local cannibals. "Hi, I'm Captain Cook". "Hmmm, now that you mention it, I am hungry". He ran out of luck in the Troppo idyll of Hawaii. |
