simply Hasbeen the civilisation prospered via the Christian Judea ethics that they adopted. Now in favour of paganistic earth worshipping we have dumbed down every area of society so much that reason has disappeared. We invite people who hate us to our shores, we promote immorality and perverted sex to our young kid, we have fools using pseudo science to destroy our economies and we think by spending more money on education will make us brighter.The Chinese and Indians must just laugh at the stupidity of the regressives.

A good post by Don Aitkin and sensible, rational comments by all ... so far!. I am surprised such comments are allowed on a web site run by the Australian Institute of Progress, Climate Institute and other socialist organisations dedicated to blocking real progress.

Hasbeen

Male failure to value motherhood, by making it a non renumerated
Job without status or societal value.
Saw women abandon it in droves for a fairer go.
Giving them equal financial control and freedom to come and go.
The privledges that men took for granted but denied women for centuries.

It is the men's fault that women walked out of the kitchen as they say..
And the Western world now does not have the numbers to thrive
As a vibrant prosperous society driven by young people . Because there
Are not enough of them
And we must import races who do not have our best welfare at heart.
Motherhood is the engine room of any society.

But men sneer at women and motherhood, treating it as slave labour.
With no financial or societal value. Only male work has value.
Can you blame the women for closing the financially valued and societally approved men's work, meaning jobs outside the home.
Chalk another nail in the demise of the Western world up to men.

He above post should read choosing not closing

Re taking climate change to the courts.

Then you would also have to take all the people who benefit
From the use of coal to court for causing harm too.

That would be everyone who uses coal fired electricity to cook
Heat and light their homes around the world.

Especially the billions in China and India.
What do the Pacific Islanders use for cooking etc?

The popes non contraception policy only adds to the coal use.
Yet he has the arrogance to blame rich nations for it.

Global warming is all about the left wing hippy types tiring to punish their
Usual target The west and Capitalist nations.
Anyway there are new innovations with solar panels which will make them very affordable in coming years. As soon as the billions using coal make the switch to the new affordable solar, problem solved. So stop bleating on about it.

Garbage CHERFUL, of the men I know well, only a couple, about 5% really wanted to be a father. For some it was an accident when quite young, but for most, present company included, becoming a father was done to help the woman they loved achieve her dream, not theirs.

Most of these men then worked their guts out, with no spare money to achieve any personal dream, paying for the ladies dream. Almost to a man, they would prefer a cheap house, or to live in a shed, if it gave them the money for a boat, or a nice car.

I suppose there are some SNAGs around who may want to impress the neighbours with their new carpet, but I've never met one, nor one wanting a new kitchen or bathroom. Expenditure on such things is at the little ladies urging. Someone described marriage for men as the worst hire purchase deal on earth. Everything you've got down, everything you earn for the rest of your life, & you can't trade in the old one.

A very common thing in classic car circles is the 60 year old bloke, who has just bought a 35 year old sports or luxury car. He has dreamed about owning one of them, ever since they were new, & at last, with those kids gone, & now they aren't worth much, he can finally afford one. Of course he only bought himself something, after the new carpet, kitchen & bathroom were all paid for.