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The real question- exactly right. Too often, the real question is overlooked by those wanting to make money from the situation. Are electric cars a better option than cars run on hydrogen? Probably not, but I doubt it makes much difference when billions can be made from electric cars.

Because when the wealthy, such as a former POTUS, buys waterfront land it indicates to the rest of us that they don't actually believe in what they preach.

Disagree. Welfare encourages women to have babies, as they get money for them.

Good luck with that in a world where people in poor countries want to move to western countries so they can live the way we do now.

I understand there used to be an effort to reduce population in India, but it was attacked for being against the human right to breed without restraint and abandoned. I saw a program about it on Al Jazeera. Back when Indira Ghandi was PM. Even China no longer tries to control population growth. Wealthy countries have reducing populations because women are educated and no longer want to have lots of, if any, children. There is probably no need for a program to reduce reproduction in wealthy countries.

I'll be very happy the day the government taxes the wealthy for any consumption over the average, but as the government is now full of the wealthy I doubt that's ever going to happen.

So, carry on breeding then, and when humanity is becoming extinct because of overpopulation don't complain. Doesn't matter to me anyway as I won't be around to suffer. That's nonsense anyway. The world functioned quite well with a population of 3 billion in the 50s. shortages of care........................workers to see to the needs of seniors, Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are millions of people that would just love to come and do that job if allowed. It doesn't take a degree to do that.

It's not the "real world". People in government have no idea how normal people live, IMO, so invent BS things that make our lives worse, while being insulated from being affected themselves because they give themselves very large wages.

Farmers are going to be forced to pay stupid "fart tax" which will force some off the land, and good farm land is being bought to plant trees for stupid "carbon credits" which is a nonsense, because it won't make a difference really. I agree that our way of life is not good for the planet, but the best thing to do is have less people, and that's not even being discussed. I've said it before, but IMO a good start would be banning all air travel for holidays. However, that's not going to happen, is it?

That's fine. I just get PO at government using climate change to make my life worse.

The trails may go back hundreds of years, but no option when I was there, that I knew of, for me to ride on them short of buying my own camel. According to the article you link to, the author did NOT ride a camel on the trail, went in a car and had a walk. She says nothing about camels still using the trail, and I'd be surprised if there were. Excellent social club. Did hundreds of trips with them.

Yes, but medieval isn't stone age.

Neither. I'll remain celibate till I die rather than get romantically involved with a white woman again, and never went for beauty queens anywhere as they think they are special.

An excellent question. IMO the people that did the most for us were Alexander Fleming for penicillin, and Babbage for his calculating machine that became the computer that saved Britain from the U boats in WW2.

Depends entirely on one's opinion as to whether such improved human intelligence overall, or just made us more stupid. Strange as it may seem to some, humanity did quite well before Albert became more than spermatozoa.

The problem with Bkk is always that it is Bkk. I never could stand it for more than a week at a time. Good for a short visit only.

555555555555555 When traffic is appalling it's not "worse" or "better" than elsewhere. Traffic in both Pattaya and C M is appalling IMO.

Depends how you define better off. Given I was not yet working, I had no money back then, so I was a penniless parasite living off my father. Was I happier then? I don't think so, but I didn't think about such things. Life is something that happened to me, not something I made.

LOL. Reminds me of when I was in Antarctica. The Americans were only a 1/2 hour walk away and their rubbish tip was referred to as the Kiwi PX. I never encountered such outright waste of still good stuff as when there.

In my experience, most don't think much about the greater world, unless it's causing a problem for them, so the little things become big things in their minds, ergo problems with such as accommodation or antisocial people overshadow the reasons we should be happy. I was very fortunate to be born when I was, and live in an underpopulated country where I could do any job I wanted without any qualifications needed. I know that, but it's hard to be happy for that reason when the world I live in is ( IMO ) in the end times and gone barking.

When referring to religious people as "good" it only, IMO, refers to them following the religion, not as to their character. Referring to a "bad" catholic might mean they use contraception etc, but doesn't mean they are a bad person.

Loads of reasonably priced good accommodation ( but not as cheap as C M ); cheap baht bus transport ( fixed route )- many C M red bus drivers were rip off merchants, especially from Promenada; 2 hours by bus from Bkk, trains and the airport; Jomtien beach a short ride away; more sights close than C M, and the tours are better value; R G mall. Traffic is appalling, but not worse than C M IMO.

Phangan, Gulf coast, Railay, Lanta Yai, Pattaya.

Leaving aside the bar workers, the locals I encountered in Pattaya were no more unfriendly than elsewhere I went in LOS.

Loads of furniture factories around Lamphun.