At least get some of your facts right, david f.

>>Delicious items of food and drink such as Caesar salad, Napoleon brandy, Napoleon pastry and Brandy Alexander are named after these monsters.<<

Caesar salad was named after the restaurant owner who invented it, Caesar Cardini.

Napoleon pastry has nothing to do with Bonaparte. It is a corruption of napolitain (Neapolitain) and originated in Naples.

Brandy Alexander is a cocktail, and was named after Troy Alexander, a bartender in New York.

The only one remotely connected with Napoleon Bonaparte is the brandy, and the evidence for that - that Napoleon insisted that no-one touch his brandy while he was away campaigning - is pretty flimsy.

Next you'll be telling us that Pol Pot's name is honoured in everything from snooker, through Josiah Wedgewood and Victorian gozunders, to recreational drugs.

Dear Pericles,

I thank you for the information and writhe at your feet in an agony of humble self-abasement.

I have enjoyed all those items and will now feel less guilty about enjoying them.

"Perhaps we're a biological error". You go too far Poirot.

Yes there are some biological errors among us, but we have a name for them.

We call them feminists.

David f>> We need to limit our population. Unfortunately that's difficult to do. The chief cause of conflict appears to be too many people competing for too few resources.<<

David we have a score card that shows 80% of the globes wealth sits in the pockets of 5% of the globes population.

We currently produce food enough to feed 12 billion people, but we can’t get food to the starving here and now.......why?.............because of the 5% I surmise.

sonofgloin,

You may need to consider that at least some of the 5% are probably taking the entrepreneurial risks to provide more food (and more energy and water) where government is incapable of doing it.

Daily there are news reports of innovations of great benefit to mankind that result from the research and other capabilities made available through the concentration of wealth in few hands (more likely corporations owned by many shareholders and operating under a mountain of regulations), but it is rare that we ever hear of government producing anything new and useful. Why is that do you suppose?

David f.,

"Our species is not unique in producing the extinction of other species. However, we are unique in concerning ourselves with the extinction of other species."

Our species "is" unique in having such a detrimental effect and causing the extinction of "so many" fellow species in the relatively short space of time that has accompanied our industrial and mechanical advances.

We're also unique in that we have the intelligence to glean the havoc we are wreaking, not only on other species, but also on the environment which supports us....but not the wisdom to moderate our activities.