Is it climate?

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>>135405234

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>>135405363
Also, the prime farming areas of the world are all located in temperate climates

>>135405234

read these posts by a former peace corps volunteer

https://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/8316-raped-in-the-peace-corp-now-i-post-on-mpc/page__st__120#entry232441

>>135405234
I noticed this as a kid.

Have you ever tried studying when it's an especially hot/humid day? It's much more difficult than average or cold days. Maybe it's a britbong thing.

>>135405234
Australia debunks you. And its not cold. Bunch of Brits sent to a desert like continent and they succeeded in 200 years what Africans couldn't in 6000 years

>>135407123

also singapore and hong kong.

*in alex jones voice* god, those britbongs were amazing...

>>135405234
US - hot climate and rich
Finland - cold climate and rich
India - hot climate and poor
Russia - cold climate and poor

>>135405234
>Temperate climate
>agriculture is clearly better than hunter-gathering
>agrarian societies introduce inequality leading to specialization
>hierarchy selects for non-nigger behavior (i.e. population is domesticated by the elite) and elites have more kids
>gradual increase in IQ and other traits promoting cooperation (i.e. less aggressiveness), as well as building up of institutions promoting cooperation
>this increase is exponential meaning that its effects become evident after a threshold is reached. And this threshold is reached "suddenly" to the nature of exponential increases.

>>135405234
>Canada
>rich

Maybe the politicians and their Chinese friends are rich not so for the rest of us

>>135407123
Australia is mostly a temperate country.
Only abbos live in the desert.

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>>135405234
It's to do with human evolution.
People north of the equator have larger brains.
This is because our brains are like a very powerful CPU. Working all the time. They require energy and produce heat.
Too much heat can be dangerous and thus isnt suitable for hot climates. As humans moved to colder areas we were able to offset the heat produced by the colder environment which allowed our brains to develop slightly larger.
Abother factor could be that the changing seasons and winter in the North require people to develop shelter, farm food during the warm months so that they dont die during the winter and greater degrees of cooperation etc.

>>135407345
US hot climate? What? There' more to US than California I guess.


BTW, I don't think it's climate, at least not directly. It's the race obviously, but white people are white because of climate probably.

>>135407123
>>135407345
You're thinking about this wrong. US and Australia arent old enough. Imagine if they were still populated by Abbos and Native Americans.
It's about racial differences developed over 200000 years

>>135407983
That's retarded

Only temperate climates lead to evolution, extreme cold and heat lead to reduction. Examples: every slavic country, every nigger country.

Nordic countries are temperate, not cold.

>>135405363
It's clearly not the climate. Mediterranean countries have much higher HDI than middlea eastern ones, despite being in the same climatic region

>>135408365
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8662850/Northerners-brains-are-bigger-scientists-find.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-may-be-most-adaptive-species/

>>135408515
>every slavic country,
Most slavic countries are temperate and warmer than than Nordic countries

>>135407983
You're fucking stupid, brains run on less power than a lightbulb.

>>135405234
>Somalia
>data unavailable
Kek

>>135408668
>Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean you are more intelligent than people from the south – just that you have evolved to cope with the longer winters and greyer skies in northern climes.

like the first sentence

>>135408515
sometimes I wish someone would've stomped you, it's easy to play the mighty jew in his untouched mountain

>>135408781
>t. Butthurt shitskin
Our brains require a huge caloric intake. Unless you can hook yourself up to a car battery thats not how human metabolism works.
And they produce a lot of heat. Read the fucking articles

>>135407893
>Not desert means temperate

Here is a climate matching map of Aus, it's not temperate.

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>>135408972
I read them. Nowhere does it give any evidence to support your stupid theory.

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>>135408862
>bigger brain on a racial scale
>doesnt mean smarter
Lmao. At least try to connect the dots
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770698/

>>135409175
See>>135409305

>>135409115
>Italy
>San Francisco
>Buenos Aires
>South Brazil
>South Africa
All those regions are temperate.

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>>135409115
>>135409026
Here's an actual climate map for you

>>135409305
so do you accept it then that you're some nigger hybrid and should be eradicated?

>>135405234
>More diseases
>Europeans only conquered different countries because of the diseases they took with them
>Sweating liberal in front of two red buttons.jpg

Even your other points don't stand because evolution adapted these "people" to their environment. Africa never had a problem with famine until (((charities))) sprung up and they started to have more children then they could feed.
If tropical climates are harder to work in, harder to farm in etc then how did whites manage to achieve it with the added difficulty of them not having been adapted for that climate?

>>135408332
So what you saying, that niggers and abos are a worthless drain on resources because they'll never surpass the docile animals they shared their continent with before humans discovered them? We already know that.

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>>135409115
>>135409446
Most of Australians live in the same climate as most of Western Europe

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>>135409446
And a map of the world.

>>135409468
>some nigger hybrid
Kek
Why would I think that?

>>135409347
Go back to school dumbass you need to work on reading comprehension. The article refers only to the visual areas of the brain and it has nothing to with heat.

>>135405234
I thinks It's not just climate but also the critters that were able to be domesticated and the natural food grasses that enabled said critters to multiply that made civilisations flourish in some areas and not others. The Zulu seem to be overlooked in all this crap as well, they had cattle.

>>135409531
White people COULDN'T work in the tropical climate (their colonies) which is why they imported slaves by the hundreds of thousands

>>135409586
You're Russian or at least live there

>>135405234
Countries That are rich are rich because most wealth is inherited. Developed countries build upon centuries of colonialism, existing infrastructure.
Some build it upon the lack of wars in near past, the neighborhood of other developed countries, existance of natural resources.

>>135409650
See the chart I posted
Also
>Overall, larger brain size and volume is associated with better cognitive functioning and higher intelligence. The correlations range from 0.0 to as high as 0.6, and are predominantly positive.
Why are you so triggered?

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>>135409388
>>135409446
Yes parts of it are temperate, I know.

But there are densely populated parts of Aus which are not temperate at all, and are still wealthy.

>>135409867
SILENCE YOU MAKE TOO MUCH SENSE

>>135409752
And?

>>135409746
>Couldn't
No we just didn't want to. Especially when there was nigger cattle that could do the work instead.

>>135405234
Too lazy to farm
Too stupid to do any long term planning
Meat on the hoof everywhere so animal farming is primitive
Too stupid to learn basic hygiene so more disease

>>135409867
There are so many exceptions to this, it's such a lazy answer.

>>135405234
Read Guns Germs & Steel. You got some of the Points already. The Northern Hemisphere especially Europe had more types of grains which could be domesticated.

>>135409867
t. Can only comprehend wealth as objects
Retard

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>>135410157
Name 10 exceptions

>>135410033
what do you mean and?

>>135407983
Lolno, cold winters mean those with lesser brains get naturally selected out of the pool. Only ones left are those with forethought

>>135410167
Please stop

>>135405234
>Serbia
>High
When it comes to average earnings per capita, we are much closer to Africa than Germany, so im not 100% sure about that

>>135405234
Hotter places are more suitable for hinting and gathering. Colder places require farming. Farming vs hunter gathering selected for individuals with different attitudes to society.

Farmers just happen to be more likely to see as everything from a point of view that they must constantly build and harvest. Building and harvesting allows for more technological development and military power than hunter gathering.

Sorry hot climate people. It's just nature.

>>135405444
>prime farming locations
I had no idea that China, India and Egypt were temperate. They are THE best farming locations on the planet when human's were developing civilization.

>>135410219
Prove me wrong
Name some countries that break this pattern

>>135409746
Couldnt isnt the right word. It was cheaper to just buy free labor who were adapted to the work climate. Africa and the west indies island were very similar climate was. It was a smart move from a economic point of view at the time.

>>135410234
>posts picture of a terror attack by low brain-volume shitskins
Whoa made me think
>>135410243
Literally look at all the evidence I posted.
>Northerners have larger brains
>larger brains=higher iq

>live in Africa
>food is available year round
>never have to evolve past hunter gatherer
>never have to think past tomorrow
>live in cold climate
>have to plant crops
>have to plan for the winter or die
>learn delayed gratification and evolve

This isn't a hard concept you fucking nigger

>>135409746
Irish were also slaves on those places buddy. Stop getting your history from north American schools lol. Those places don't teach you anything. They fill your head full of propaganda.

>>135410263
Dont suppose you have the rebutal screencaps to that book? Its always a treat to read.

>>135410167
Which grains were domesticated in Europe then? I think there are maybe 2.

I think you don't know what you're talking about.

>>135410234
Well your theory is too nebulous to just name examples, let me address what you said thematically instead.

>Developed by colonialism
The poorest country in western Europe had colonies for the longest time, the richest had no colonies, nor the second richest, nor the third, fourth...

>developed by existing infrastructure
Australia has the highest HDI in the world, in the 18th century there was literally 0 infrastructure in Australia

>Lack of wars in the near past
Germany, ravaged by 2 recent wars, has the most robust economy in Europe.

>Existence of natural resources
Most of Sub Saharan Africa begs to differ. As does Singapore.

>>135410742
THIS
but people here will jerk themselves off at the thought of being a part of the master race.

>>135405234
Rich countries are located in temperate and cold regions because the people who evolved in temperate and cold regions (Whites and East Asians) had to be smart and industrious in order to survive winters.

Life in equatorial regions is easy, since there are no winters and food is available year-round. The people who evolved in equatorial regions are not as smart or industrious as people who evolved in cold regions, and this is why there is such a stark difference between these races.

>>135408781

The brain represents about 25% of your base resting metabolic rate. In other words, you brain consumes about a quarter of your body's energy budget when at rest.

>>135405234
This is bullshit hypothesis. Farmlands of china, europe, USA are rich because we made them rich. Draining swamps, added irrigation, created walls to keep soil from being blown away, etc...

If you take all humans our of equation and want to survive on your own... easiest countries to survive are Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon ... countries where you can survive throughout the year as hunter-gatherer.

Try that in Finland, Norway, Russia, Canada... average nigger wouldn't survive a single winter.

>>135410742
Native Americans from Canada had winter. They failed. Abos had winter, they failed

>>135411843
Australia is lucky to hit 0 on a winter night.

As for Canada, not sure, most likely to do with hard to domesticate animals and no good crop plants?

>>135409867

Japan, for example, only left the middle ages in the 1860, and yet is quite wealthy. Germany had no colonies and was absolutely shrek'd during WWII, and yet is quite wealthy. The U.S. was absolutely devoid of capital goods prior to 1600, and yet is the largest economy in the world.

>>135412204
>Germany had no colonies and was absolutely shrek'd during WWII, and yet is quite wealthy.
Was quick to industrialize, had a big population with very urban culture compared to most of Europe, Even after WWII a part of it was spared from communism, which made it able to grow. Marshall plan and the money US spent on it due to it being on the cold war frontier helped.
>The U.S. was absolutely devoid of capital goods prior to 1600, and yet is the largest economy in the world.

>prior to 1600
Are you discussing anything or is this bait? Why does it matter what happened before 1600 if the US came about as a colony of an already rich nation?

>>135405234
climates impact on evolution maybe

>>135409867
>Developed countries build upon centuries of colonialism
HAHAH shill spotted. UK wasted all of their Gold and colonial gains during WW1. Look at Germany they were raised to the ground in WW2 and are not leading economy in Europe. Sweden never colonized and they are wealthy. Africa has shit ton of natural resources

UAE isnt a poor country

>>135412915
Do you think Britain was pumping wealth into the US? Do you understand that it was the other way around? The only things the US was gifted from Britain was culture, institutions and blood.

>>135413052
>HAHAH shill spotted
Yes Soros/Putin/Hillary hired me to shitpost on /pol/.
Get a fucking life.

>>135413147
Not in a literaly sense, much rather that you are a commie

>>135413147
>ignores entire post
>focuses on one word

desu you do seem like a shill, even though I don't actually think you are. You haven't responded to a lot of rebuttals to your grand statement.

>>135410732
The aids infested violent Russian is pretty different to the low brain-volume shitskin right?

>>135411014
You're breaking it down into single categories when it was implied by the poster that it is usually a mix of these.If you swapped Norway and Bulgaria. Would the big Aryan brained Norwegians have the same GDP per capita?

>The poorest country in western Europe had colonies for the longest time, the richest had no colonies, nor the second richest, nor the third, fourth...
Portugal is pretty much a small country, had giant wars and didn't industrialize properly. They're not Indian tier poor. They're just doing worse. Switzerland is a giant bank, who was left alone

>Australia has the highest HDI in the world, in the 18th century there was literally 0 infrastructure in Australia
They built it on an extremely resource rich island, the most devastating war they had was against some fucking birds. Their hardest decision was how much to tax the Chinese that were coming here to find gold.

>Germany, ravaged by 2 recent wars, has the most robust economy in Europe.
Western Germany got kick started and then left alone. They're a big nation, they just had to rebuild themselves.

>Most of Sub Saharan Africa begs to differ. As does Singapore.
I don't know about Singapore, but you couldn't rebuild let's say Somalia for example like the city state of Singapore.

>>135413135
No you fought wars for them and then they said fuck this tax shit we don't even get to vote, look at all the resources here, fuck the UK and now you're poor for them

>Bigger brains outsmart harsh climates
http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2016/12/22/brain-size-in-harsh-climates/
>Bigger Brain Size Matters For Intellectual Ability
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051223123116.htm
>Big heads really are smarter
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/28/research.health


>It's grim up North... which gives the locals bigger brains
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2019172/Northerners-brains-bigger-grim-North.html

Obviously nobody will ever come out and publicly combine these studies( ie. Northerners havr bigger brains, bigger brains, on average, correlate with better cognitive ability) and draw conclusions because that would be rayycisst

>>135405363
shitty map

>>135413216
>much rather that you are a commie
>Anyone I don't like is a commie

>>135413135
>Do you think Britain was pumping wealth into the US? Do you understand that it was the other way around?
Are you talking about the American revolution?
It was a struggle between nobles in America vs nobles in Britain becase the American nobles wanted their profits for themselves.

>>135413304
I already responded to one of his poins in another post.

>>135413336
Nice memes m9.
Why dont you show your flag, shitskin Somali?

>>135413623
No thank you, you might find me and give me AIDS and then inject me with krokodil

>>135413723
Whatever you say pussy shitskin.
You cant argue with science

>>135413336
When you put it like this though all the points he was making melt away to nothing. You yourself explain how many exceptions there than be.

You are left with this 'existing infrastructure, periods of peace, and natural resources help a country's economy' which literally non-one would disagree with. The point is you can't explain global wealth distribution this way.

>>135413521
Why are you changing the subject? You said a USA was rich because it was an offshoot of a rich nation, yet none of the things (resources, infrastructure, peace) were gifted by the father nation. So your 'theory' is inconsistent rubbish.

>>135405234
one is full of niggers, one is not.

>>135413907
excuse me

*none of the things (resources, infrastructure, peace) which you said built the wealth of a nation were gifted by the father nation.

>>135413336
>Fought wars for them

The US was naturally insulated from invasion by their geography, if they needed us to fight wars for them, why weren't they subjugated as soon as we left?

>>135413907
>You said a USA was rich because it was an offshoot of a rich nation
I never said that. Stop building a strawman.
It was one of the factors that helped it become successful.

>>135412915
>Are you discussing anything or is this bait? Why does it matter what happened before 1600 if the US came about as a colony of an already rich nation?

Because the purpose of colonies was to increase the wealth and power of the mother country, dipshit. No one established colonies actually intending to build them up to the level of development of the metropole. Sometimes that did happen, but only in places where enough white people settled (U.S., Australia, NZ, etc.).

>Was quick to industrialize, had a big population with very urban culture compared to most of Europe

India had a rather urban culture, at least compared to most of Europe, and it's still a shithole.

>Even after WWII a part of it was spared from communism

But your premise was based on colonialism. Communism had nothing to do with it. Please Do Not Move The Goalposts.

>>135413135
>The only things the US was gifted from Britain was culture, institutions and blood.

It's almost like these factors play a larger part in explaining wealth distribution than any amount of mineral wealth.

>>135405234
It is related like this:
climate => traditions => culture => wealth

>>135414271
>Are you discussing anything or is this bait? Why does it matter what happened before 1600 if the US came about as a colony of an already rich nation?

Please explain what you meant by this.

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>saudi arabia
>very high

>>135413983
>one is full of niggers, one is not.
Yes you dummy. If you live closer to the equator, your skin will contain more melanoma due to evolution.

>>135414411
I'm just saying you have to be an idiot to make that kind of statement about 1600 when it's 21st century. Why don't you look at what happened in between? Why pick a date before the colonization by the English even started?

Baiscally wealth=/=intelligence
UAE, Qatar are some of the richest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita. That doesnt make them intelligent.
A lot of different circumstantial, social, historical and political factors go into whether a country is wealthy right now or not.

>>135407123
Thing is, they carried their knowledge from Europe so they knew how to do things. It would be far less likely for them to come up with everything from scratch. In that sense the Guns, Germs and Steel book is correct, in that living conditions had a big impact on how far populations were able to develop. But it doesn't exclude genetic differences at all. Evolution didn't just stop at one point, humans continued developing as living conditions changed. So Africans are different from Europeans because they never advanced past a certain point, and they never advanced because their environment wasn't optimal

>>135414559
Because you said all national wealth is inherited you fucking moron.

Christ you are dense.

>>135414623
you already know

>>135414296
I never said colonisation is the only way. Learn to read. I also never said the things I mentioned are the only factors. Stop nitpicking.
>No one established colonies actually intending to build them up to the level of development of the metropole. Sometimes that did happen, but only in places where enough white people settled (U.S., Australia, NZ, etc.).
Whiteness has nothing to do with it. Rather, that these countries are majority descendants of the settlers. It's obviously not the case in most post-colonial countries.
>India had a rather urban culture, at least compared to most of Europe, and it's still a shithole.

>>135414463
Oil and few population

>>135413823
And you can't argue that you're subhumans, just because you can count to 10 unlike brown people, it doesn't mean that you're not inferior. I'm using your same logic. Your country is shit because it's populated by shit

>>135413907
>The point is you can't explain global wealth distribution this way.
You can in a way. A lot of the richest countries have a lot in common. Big nations, with resources otherwise you took them from other people and somehow those people weren't disadvantaged from that? Look at Congo and Belgium. I mean But in the end you still need good leadership, otherwise, you won't develop.

>>135414154
I meant shit like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

>>135414703
It was inherited.
Who makes up the population of the US nowadays? White people and Black people. Natives are like 0.01% of the population.
Where were the ancestors of White and Black people in 1600? Not in America, you retard.

>>135405234
people near the equator are also violent and low impulse

>>135414951
So why does being a 'majority' matter, if it's all to do with infrastructure and natural resources?

>>135415010
>richest countries are big nations
wrong
>richest countries stole resources
wrong

>>135415146
What exactly is it that you think they inherited? Be specific.

>>135405234
I know what they say, 1/3rd of the earth is getting scorched, let us take their resources quickly

>>135415010
>And you can't argue that you're subhumans
literally fucking what lol?
Russia has many achievements behind it. You're not using any logic, just trying to ad hominem with memes while hiding your flag. Pretty pathetic but entertaining.

>>135414643
But now Africans have knowladge and unlike Japs or asians they fail. And its not envoirment because in south Africa whites made it a excelent country, and now with whites dissapearing its going downhill

>>135405234
>Is climate the ultimate explanation for why some countries fare better than others?
nope, it's brainpower. climate has got nothing to do with it.

>>135415457
>Russia has many achievements behind it.
Starving before dying of aids?

>>135415285
I'm not talking about micro nations, I'm talking about let's say G7. If there wasn't anything to gain from colonies, like new resources, then why the fuck did you have them?

>>135415703
Show me your flag.

>>135410556
Japan
Germany
Argentina
United States
Australia
Singapore

>>135415146
Why did you ignore the example of Japan made earlier? In 1850, the country was using muskets while everyone was using rifles. They had no contact with the outside world and were still using feudal systems over 200 years old. By 1910 they were one of the most powerful navies on the planet, and were embattled with Russia and China, and winning. How does your bullshit explanation involve them?

>>135415703
No like countless scientific and artistic achievements.
You're still mistaking memes for arguments m8. Come back in 100000 years when you've caught up on human evolution

>>135415703
>I'm not talking about micro nations, I'm talking about let's say G7.

But why are you?

And G7 is about the size of their economies, not just how wealthy the people within those countries are. It favours larger countries by definition.

> then why the fuck did you have them?
For power and profit for the ruling class, many of whom elected to live abroad anyway.

If colonies did make us rich, then why is the average Irishman now richer than the average Englishman? Why is there absolutely no correlation between empire and wealth within Western countries?

>>135416132
*between western countries

>>135407983
>>135409305
>>135413451
THIS

i moved from a northern state with long cold winters to florida where it's almost year long hot and humid except for a very brief "cool" january.

i think it does screw with your mind a bit. it's like time doesn't really exist here, it's just eternal humidity. if you go outside, all you do is sweat. when i exercise or travel outside on foot or bicycle, i don't really think, as i used to think while going for an invigorating walk in the woods in fall or winter up north. no, my senses function, but my mind is not there. it's purely instinctual, driven by the need to get where i'm going or back to my a/c room. it's like a constant endurance test if you're outside, how to deal with it without spontaneously combusting or melting into a puddle of sweat.

10 mins exercise outside and all your clothes are soaked. it can make you feel incredibly lazy. there is no ambition to do anything but get back inside the air conditioning. you might get motivated to go outside and exercise or do something, but after 3hrs or so the heat will start to get to you. it's heat exhaustion, i never even knew it before moving to florida, now i approach it every day. it feels like you're being run down by an unstoppable force.

i would imagine that any humans evolving exclusively in such a climate would definitely suffer from it. i don't know how the hell native americans lived in florida. my first year here we only had a couple of weak window a/c units, so when we'd get back to the house after (((work))) or whatever at the end of the day, it was like walking into an oven. absolutely suffocating.

>>135405234
In a sense you are correct. But the largest factor is that the entirety of the north and south American continents are inhabited by Europeans, Australia (the wealthy, functional parts of the continent) is also inhabited by Europeans. The reason why China and India are advancing in technology is because Europeans have been training them to do all our work practically for free. Japan is the only exception in the world, although they are also heavily influenced by the European industry. The reason why the old British colonies did not do so well is because Europeans used the people in one way or another, not really teaching them how shit is done, and later they just left (as in, there are currently no Europeans in most of the African countries). Europeans are far more advanced than most other nationalities in the world, apart from some exceptions. Some say it's due to climate, some say Europeans have bigger brains. There's really no way of knowing for sure but one thing is for certain, Europeans (including their descendants in America and so on), are superior.

>>135415703
Russia has contributed a fuckton to the world, it got assraped by communism but before and during produced some of the worlds greatest authors, artists, poets, scientists, etc. Your skin is definitely black because only blacks can be so jealous of whites.

>>135415518
I touched on that in my message; because they never advanced, they never developed. So now even though they have the same resources as other populations, they're simply not equipped to live the same way mentally. Agriculture and industrial life encourages planning and thinking ahead and over time it changed the mental outlook of populations, similar to how different dog breeds behave differently. Africans don't think the same way because they never needed to

>>135411149
How does his post disprove that whites are the master race?
Whites are more evolved due to those factors.

>>135415823
Isn't it funny that when you think you're white you're gonna be a nigger someone, kek

>>135415823
>Japan
Great leadership, got helped, big country, were assholes before

>Germany
Great leadership, got helped, big country, enslaved EE for a 1000 years before this killed Rome. Just had to be rebuilt

>Argentina
Shithole

>United States
>Look ma how can I carry all of these resources?

>Australia
>Look ma how can I carry all of these resources?

>Singapore
city state with good leadership

>>135416111
>No like countless scientific and artistic achievements.
>100 million people managed to invent some shit, bravo

>>135416132
>It favours larger countries by definition.
Yes and bigger nations invaded smaller nations
>For power and profit for the ruling class
and this was done in a manner that kinda fucked the smaller nation

>Leopold formally acquired rights to the Congo territory at the Conference of Berlin in 1885 and made the land his private property. He named it the Congo Free State.[25] Leopold's regime began various infrastructure projects, such as construction of the railway that ran from the coast to the capital of Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), which took eight years to complete. Nearly all such infrastructure projects were aimed at making it easier to increase the assets which Leopold and his associates could extract from the colony.

>If colonies did make us rich, then why is the average Irishman now richer than the average Englishman?
Median wealth
United Kingdom $130,590
Ireland $79,346

They have better leadership than you now because David Cameron preached austerity from a fucking golden chair.

>>135416539
jedi govna

>>135410493
Also, on overall landmass, Africa has about 60% of all the farmable land in the world
also, is farmable even a word?

>>135416789
>Jedi govna
Bahahahaha it's a fucking butthurt Croat everyone! Fucking it all makes sense now

>>135416789
>>100 million people managed to invent some shit, bravo
Stay mad shitskin

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>>135417023

>>135410167
That book is really bad. Diamond is way off the mark and is just imposing cultural Marxism on civilization development.

Toynbee is the one to read.

>>135410493
Most of China and Egypt have temperate climate. The Nile river delta is a Mediterranean environment.

>>135416789
I don't think you understand. I mean G7 literally favours larger nations by definition, not because of any historical reasons, but because larger nations have larger economies. As in, India has a larger economy that Qatar, but Qatar is the richest country on earth.

I have no idea what your quote about Congo is supposed be saying. How does it prove that imperial nations are richer today?

You are mistaken about Britain and Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

>>135417070
Posters with reddit flags should not be replied to.

>>135416320
I've lived in FL and the South my entire life and have never had a problem. I love it here. You yankees had better hope there isn't a major disaster that knocks the power out for more than 4 hrs. you will die cause "its too hot" wth? why are you here? I don't go to canada cause I know it snows and we don't like the cold. WAAAAA where's my ac? what a pussy. I work in the heat 10 hr days and 60 hrs a week.Get a compass drive to 95 head North and keep going until you hit a snow drift dummy. We don't need you manatee killing water polluting stupid yankees here. WAAAA it's too hot! You sound like a pussified version of goldilocks.

>>135405234
Your scope is too narrow. Norway was poor as shit two hundred years ago. India once produced over a quarter of all manufactured goods. Central Africa has always been shit.

>Why do temperate/cold regions produce wealth?
Is not the right question.
>How do civilizations survive in less than ideal questions?
Is.

>>135414492
> melanoma
lol

If you want to read about why civilizations rise and fall, Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History" is really the source you want. It's nine volumes and would take you the rest of your life to read, but there's an abridged version I've been slowly working on and off for the past three years.

It's a tough read because of the number of examples he cites, but basically his paradigm breaks down like this:

Civilizations rise and survive based on the challenges they face and they have to be just the right amount of challenge. That is, too little and the society stagnates in complacency like a tropical island. Too much and the society collapses.

Climate is relevant, but is only one factor. He also discusses at length the effects of migration, etc. He was a true master of history and the English language and I highly recommend this work.

Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel is garbage.

>>135417023
Bist du sicher? How do you classify a multi lingual pirate?

>>135417070
How's the corruption, AIDS, drugs, and poverty going?

>>135417300
>How does it prove that imperial nations are richer today?
Belgium is doing pretty fine, Congo is probably in its genocidal phase

>I don't think you understand. I mean G7 literally favours larger nations by definition, not because of any historical reasons, but because larger nations have larger economies.
Yes and historically these countries had big armies and they settled places, had their own monarchies where it was incouraged to invent shit. As I said, move the UK from an island and plop it in the ME, but filled with same people, do you think everything would be the same?

>You are mistaken about Britain and Ireland.
GDP PPP is cancer, the average Brit has still accumulated more wealth than an Irish bloke. And now their average wage is 200 euros higher. The US is probably a much better place to live than Singapore, even though the Singaporean GDP is insane

>>135405234
>what is Singapore
>what is Australia
Also, the southern parts of China and India are considerably less shitty than the northern parts.

Europeans have occupied several portions of these territories and made economic successes out of them, furthermore I'd be led to believe much of the climate in Russia and Finland far harsher than others mentioned yet both nations have proven successful and far more advanced than Africa.
My honest opinion is that the inevitable admixture of homo erectus, cro magnons, homo sapiens, etc had resulted in IQ differences, most discoveries of homo erectus have shown a larger skull capacity and several other features still found in Europeans, we know very little about them but there's substantial proof of tool use age and linguistics etc, its possible they were a more intelligent though less numerous species due to harsher environment and interbreeding/war would have wiped them out. Big if true!

>>135418137
surely not as bad as in your shithole

>>135418137
Yes Belgium is a better place to live than than the Congo, but Norway is even better. It's insane to look at Belgium and say the only reason it is wealthy is because of its shitty empire.

If large countries become wealthy by dominating smaller ones, why are all of the wealthiest countries small nations?

If you think wealth per capita is a better metric for standard of living than GDP PPP you are a fucking moron. And if you think the wealth of those Brits comes from the British empire, you're even stupider. Let me give you a hint: it has something to do with property values.

>>135418137
>move the UK from an island and plop it in the ME, but filled with same people, do you think everything would be the same?

This is pretty much what happened with the white colonies. Which are now very wealthy.

>>135405234
Seasons make smarter humans. The constant changing in the environment requires constant adaptation therefore just the high IQ individuals survive in tempered zones.

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>>135418137
>How's the corruption, AIDS, drugs, and poverty going?
Russia has literally none of that except corruption. It's just memes bro. Literally look at the HDI map.

>>135417211
>Most of China and Egypt have temperate climate
>most of Egypt
>temperate
This is one of the most ridiculous bullshit i have ever read

>>135407559
You're not on $300 a month like most Ruskies.

>>135419044
The Nile River Delta has Mediterranean climate. That's where civilization arose.

>but muh hot Saharan desert
Nobody lives there.

>>135413451
Ivan dropping the redpills

>>135418679
If the tiny nation of Belgium would get enslaved by Germany and they would be in a feudal society until 1900, do you think they would be on the same level as the Belgium that was left alone who sailed to Africa and chopped people's hands off if they didn't pick rubber for the Belgian king fast enough?

>>135418791
No it didn't, they moved to places with many resources and then they had to think about which natives they were going to kill and which they will fuck to death

>>135418948
You actually went down in HDI. I'm just using your own logic. Yeah yah yeha you wuz KANGZ N SHIEEET NIGGA, but it's a shit country because it's filled with shit people who're inferior to the glorious real white man with a 10" dick

>>135419536
>I'm just using your own logic.
Nigger you have no logic.
My argument is based on science you're basically making shit up and arguing with your meme opinions without a shred of evidence. Im sorry I hurt your feelings with facts little shitskin.

>>135419313
If you count Egypt as temperate, so is much of Sub Saharan Africa. Look up the climate data for Maputo or Nairobi, fuck even Kinshasha is cooler than Cairo in summer.

>>135419536
>If the tiny nation of Belgium would get enslaved by Germany and they would be in a feudal society until 1900, do you think they would be on the same level as the Belgium that was left alone who sailed to Africa and chopped people's hands off if they didn't pick rubber for the Belgian king fast enough?

No, what's your point? You said nations were rich because they were colonisers, not because they weren't enslaved and feudal. Of course enslaved feudal countries are poorer. What does that have to do with anything?

>No it didn't, they moved to places with many resources and then they had to think about which natives they were going to kill and which they will fuck to death

Ok, what's your point? You said if a load of Brits moved to ME they wouldn't be rich, but ME has way more valuable resources than say, NSW.

I think you're losing track of your own argument.

>>135419893
No, your argument is based on a bigger brain and the first sentence in the first article is that it doesn't imply of greater intelligence. Scandinavians are niggers compared to the Brits and the British climate is mild

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>>135419313
>The Nile River Delta has Mediterranean climate
Not true. It has a hot desert climate.

>>135420050
Jesus fuck how dumb are you?
>>135413451

>>135405234
>Is climate the ultimate explanation for why some countries fare better than others?
its certainly a contributor and many have said this

I can not stress enough how my personal experience has confirmed that it is hard to keep a cool head in a warm country. Even just going to romania compared to where I live is a difference of day and night the summers there are next to unbearable and that's just romania

I can't even imagine how it is in Africa

it should not be underestimated that something as simple as this can play a significant role in the intellectual development of peoples

>>135420050
Well, Britain being an island and not being subjected to all the horrors of continental Europe is also another factor.

>>135405234
how are cuckroats higher than us? Those leeches had seceded and started earning shitloads of money out of tourism.

>>135420026
No you never got the point, you were rich in the first place that's how you got colonies and that's how you got richer, because you were the one exploiting other nations. I'm saying if the Brits weren't on an island and would be located let's say next to the Ottoman empire, everything would be much different

>>135420153
>The study involved testing of intelligence in 100 neurologically normal, terminally ill volunteers, who agreed that their brains be measured after death.
That's why I don't like research it's a waste of money. Look, guys, I did 100 tests

>>135420365
Scandinavia is not continental Europe, you also need some level of war/competition in general so you get progress

>>135405234

For sure good geography is an important requirement for development, not enough though, you still need culture and good institutions.

In the book "Prisoners of Geography", Tim Marshal explains how geography plays a role in development and conflicts. Good reading. And indeed, tropical zones have extra challenges to develop large scale farming, such as diseases, poor soil and excess of sunshine.

>>135420623
Ok, so why is Ireland rich?

What do you mean 'rich in the first place', we weren't rich when the Romans invaded.

>>135420623
Isn't it? It is connected by a landmass. It's not like Britain where it's completely standalone.

>>135405234
Hdi is a shit index for wealth
>Cuba very high
>north africa better than indonesia

>>135420623
>>135420903
>I don't like research

You're such a fucking moron. Why am I still arguing with you?

>>135420704
People don't really appreciate where we live. In Africa there are no winters, mosquitos kill people 24/7

>>135420903
Yes but the Romans were.

>>135420960
To get to Scandinavia you have to go from Russia. That's why the Fins got the short end of the stick, mean while Norway is pretty comfy.

>>135420903
Luxembourg level trickery? I mean the Swiss are paid twice as much as the Irish. The Irish average Salary is nothing impressive for WE

>>135420704
>poor soil
as far as I know the soil there is exceptionally good because fertile from all the dead organic matter in rain forests.

>>135420979
>north africa better than indonesia
What's wrong with that?

>>135421119
FFS you're a moron, I don't like research because it takes a small sample and then that's proof. It's like how meat gives you cancer for 2 years, then it doesn't give you cancer for 2 years and now it gives you cancer if you eat it well done, but otherwise, it's fine.

>>135421291
It's because it has Africa in the name and no one told the poor chap that Indonesia is a poor Muslim country

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No, it's not climate, a country is rich because white or east asian people live in them. Exceptions include socialists countries and petroleum exportation countries. Look for this map. All white majority area is rich. Coincidence? I don't think so.

>>135421291
Apart from Morocco or Tunis a majority of NA is in conflict.

>>135421143
>Yes but the Romans were.
So you think colonisation makes the colonised country richer?

>Luxembourg level trickery? I mean the Swiss are paid twice as much as the Irish. The Irish average Salary is nothing impressive for WE
Firstly that's wrong, secondly, how can Ireland even reach an average level for a Western European country when it is a colonISED country competing with the greatest colonISERS in history? That is, if your theory that a nations wealth comes from its empire is correct.

>>135421298
>some studies are done incorrectly
>research is therefore useless
Try to live your life without the benefits of research.

The average IQ of the population is the always the main factor.

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Look for this another map, all black majority area is poor, coincidence? I don't think so. Obviously if this area is on a white country, the whites can support this area with institutions. But if this area not have the white support, will be like africa. Haiti is a example.

>>135421464
Yet they still manage to be less shitty than indonesia (except for Libya)

>>135421819
Libya was doing the best in the region till Clinton came along...

>>135421736
This map is so wrong lol

>>135421929
This is true

North africans are caucasians, they have descendants on white people. This is a reason why north african countries are better than sub-saharan african countries. If islam ( a ideology against free market) not have a participation in the culture, they will be more developed. Example: Tunisia, libya, egypt and Algeria

>>135422029
What it's wrong?

>>135421550
>Try to live your life without the benefits of research.
How would I live with someone looking at the brain of 100 bodies and conducting that a bigger brain means more intelligent so that a Russian can sperg on a Ruthenian banana growing forum

>Firstly that's wrong,
So how do you have a 2200€/month salary with a 70k GDP?

>So you think colonisation makes the colonised country richer?
So the Romans were chopping off you hand because you weren't collecting enough rubber?

>>135405234
Does the city where any of you live have a easily accessible breakdown of daily temps like my local city does? I can literally find the min/max and precip of any day going back 100 plus years. I haven't looked as obviously for other cities, but I have looked and haven't been able to find anything as handy as this.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/twin_cities/listings.html

>>135422147
They are caucasoids that's for sure, or at least were, but of the semiitic family

>>135419313
Climate had nothing to do with the heat index of Egypt (or Mesopotamia for that matter). The Nile, Tigris and Euphrates floods replenished the soil, whereas farmers elsewhere thought it was "normal" for fields to produce gradually worse crops.

In essence, the Nile & Fertile Crescent eliminated the need for crop rotation or leaving fields fallow (which were techniques that most had not discovered yet; and if they had, gave the civilizations in Iraq and Egypt a major advantage).

That was a huge natural advantage and enough to put these civilizations at the forefront for thousands of years, with a culture so developed and advanced that it was adopted by conquerors rather than destroyed and replaced.

>>135405234
TL;DR:
Hot = going outside, having fun and fucking WHORES
Cold = staying inside and being productive, but also crippling depression and social anxiety
I'm looking at you Finland

>>135422250
It's obvious this is bait to say blacks are poor. You listed the southern states as mildly poor, but didn't list any northern/western states (some are poorer than the ones you listed) because that would hurt your narrative.

>>135405234
No, I think it has to do with which nations embraced capitalism and christianity early on. Ever wonder why Australia is properous while it is covered with deserts.

>>135422147
White and Turkic from what I've read.

>>135422369
That's explain their development, and the jewish development. Remember, Ashkenazi jews have europeans descendants. Israel is a higher tecnological economy. Ashkenazi ruled the economy. The other north african and ethiopian jews are poor compared to ashkenazi. Why? European descendants.

>>135422285
the device you're currently using only exists due to multiple human life careers worth of research.

I don't understand what you mean, Ireland has a good standard of living compared to other WE countries, how can this be possible if empire is what makes those countries strong?

I didn't say they were. But why did roman wealth make Britain wealthy? And where did roman wealth come from?

>>135422557
This areas are not black majority, they have 25% blacks. Less blue, less black. Obviously with different politics and white or black are can be more poor, or rich. But is complete obviously all black areas is poor.

>>135418679
>If large countries become wealthy by dominating smaller ones, why are all of the wealthiest countries small nations?

You're just defining wealth in a different way than it was before the 20th century. Spain with its vast empire was "wealthy" even though most of its people were quite pathetic in a material sense. They wouldn't even have been able to understand a definition of wealth which involved consumer goods, access to education and welfare, etc. I mean part of the Spanish/Hapsburg wealth WAS dominating modern Belgium in Hapsburg Netherlands for 150 years -- the large dominating the small and taking profit from it.

>>135409388
What about Greece? Western culture was originated in a hot climate

>>135407983
What the fuck do they teach you in Russia?

>>135422410
>Climate had nothing to do with the heat index of Egypt

*Progress I should have said, sorry.

>>135415006
that didn't seem to help venezuala

>>135405234
it's a part of it, not a perfect correlation.

look up "aggressive behavior and hot temperatures" there's a study about hot climates contribute to aggression which makes it hard to do deals between people, which makes free trade hard, which makes civilization hard.

there was also a study by a dutch scientist, forgot his name, of how people in the northern US react to being randomly bumped into on a street vs people in the southern US. And as you might expect, the southern folk tend to be a lot more aggressive.

Exist many articles in American renaissence with views on a future african planet, if the fertility rate of africa will not stop in the future. This can be turn all the rich areas in poor areas

>>135422902
That's not relevant to our discussion. We are discussing whether wealthy countries in the modern day are wealthy because of empire.

>>135405444
W all know why the north is better...

>>135405234
fuck the saudis.

>>135423053
Socialism never work, even if you have lots of oil

>>135422830
>I don't understand what you mean, Ireland has a good standard of living compared to other WE countries, how can this be possible if empire is what makes those countries strong?
It's almost as if once they shot their way out of you British favoring empire, they started doing better?

>But why did roman wealth make Britain wealthy?
It didn't make Britain wealthy, but it did bring new ideas and technologies while not industrially exploiting you like a nigger.

>And where did roman wealth come from?
Your taxes, your ore

>>135405234
Dumb fucks of europe died in the winter and they had to work together with their neighbour cities instead of start war

>>135423225
also Ireland was neutral in WW2, that's a huge plus

>>135405234
yep. greenhouses are a plot to bring the west to poverty.

>>135416931
arable is the word you're looking for

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I.q also means richest or poverty behaviors. Look at this map. All lower i.q countries are black. All the poverty countries with no war and no socialism or communism are BLACK

>>135423225
So you agree that a country with no empire has become just as rich as those with empires, and that wealth comes from ideas and technology, not just natural resources?

You realise that you're also saying that Rome made its colonies wealthy, and that colonies made Rome wealthy, which proves that wealth is primarily created, not inherited?

So how is your original argument holding up?

>>135423654
That means IF BLACK PEOPLE, ISLAM AND COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM NOT EXIST. WILL NOT EXIST POVERTY!

>>135423797
So, solve the poverty! Kill all the blacks, muslims, communists and socialists.

>>135405234

It's the opposite, retard. Do you even understand how natural selection works?

To survive cold winters in prehistoric times, you had to be smart. The stupid were weeded out, and thus people in colder areas evolved to be more intelligent. And now that the cold is no longer an existential threat, we are reaping the benefits of our more evolved intelligence and becoming rich. Africans are stupid not because it's hard to survive there, but because it's easy.

>>135423797
Stop carry about poorest people, they are all socialists, communists, blacks and muslims. Help them will not change your ideologys and i.qs ( what makes them poor in the first place)

>>135423797
>>135424044

All the smartest countries on your map are socialist/communist you dumb fuck.

I'm going to stop reading this thread, the retardation here is so off the charts, I'd have to school pretty much every single poster individually.

>>135424324
Socialist it's a cause of poverty, that don't means populations with higher i.q can be socialists

>>135405234
White people had to use their brains more to survive in the intense cold regions. That creative development of the brain is what propelled us to number one status. Where there are a majority of whites, there is prosperity.

>>135424324
Japan, taiwan and south korea are capitalist, in the map just north korea are socialist. China it's a special case, they adopt free markets, but they call themselves socialist. They are in fact capitalists

>>135424445

You're not exactly making a good case for capitalism with your barely comprehensible posts and retarded assumptions. You don't even know what socialism is. My country is socialist and is the richest country in the world, with zero poverty. Because, you know, the core tenet of socialism is sharing the riches so that no one is poor.

>>135423725
No, you're missing the point.

You need good climate otherwise you're fucked

Rome didn't make its colonies wealthy, but I imagine you were a bunch of fucking farmers and they brought new concepts without completely exploiting you. Ireland was part of the UK, but they weren't quite your equal now were they? Then when they became independent and left alone and didn't participate in WW2 that fucked pretty much every country involved except for the US which profited from it and became one of the world's super powers. All the small rich nations weren't enslaved and didn't fuck themselves up in WW2. If you had an empire you had a more favorable position than your subordinates. If Ireland was still the UK it would be in a shittier spot, wouldn't it?

>>135424677
Socialism kind of works without niggers.

The reason sub-80 IQ countries are shit is not because of le dummy, but it's because they're niggers. It's literally as simple as that! They don't understand concepts of empathy that socialism must have within the society. Socialism can't work with apes, and you'd have to have people with jobs make money to rob them of (taxes) to give to the other nigs, but I'm sure the smart ones would realize that they'd have to get immune to taxes somehow, or they'll get robbed of 100% of their income so some other nigs can get their gibs.

Socialism is a symptom of not being a nigger. Empathy is a characteristic of humans. Speaking of empathy, chinks don't have empathy either. They're only successful from European and Soviet leftovers.

>>135424984
So how does that prove that rich countries are rich because of colonisation? Seems like your saying WW2 was a bigger factor contributing to the modern wealth of nations that centuries of imperialism.

>You need good climate otherwise you're fucked
Arizona
Manitoba
Queensland
Salisbury
Stanley
Juneau
Darwin

What do all these places have in common, apart from being relatively wealthy? It's not climate.

>>135409867
You didn't have colonialism without superior technology. It's not like one country colonized an equally wealthy country or something. Wealthy in natural resources perhaps, but that is nothing without the inhabitants making use of it.

>>135424927
Socialist with free market? You country it's not socialist you dumbass idiot. You country is capitalist.

>>135425287
So why north korea don't work?

>>135413451
As a Norwegian living in south america I can confirm that I am both stronger and smarter tnan even the whitest of them... and while being a bit under average (180cm 60-62 in hatsize and 44-45 in shoesize I can't even get custom shoes or hats as those sizes doesn't exist even with specialist in for example La Paz.

In a nation that still has a plentitude of hatmakers and shoemakers I have to buy my shoes at thriftmarkets selling us charities.

In general it seems to me to be more climate than race. Go to any of the places in latin america with montaneous regions and you'll see how places like Bogota and La Paz aint that stoopid and the tropical regions of the same countries are completely monkeyfied.

>>135425620
>So how does that prove that rich countries are rich because of colonization?
It's the opposite, colonized countries tend to be poorer because they were exploited, the same shit happened in the US, the native Americans are alcoholics living in reservations, while the relatively small population of the US has vast amounts of resources.

>Seems like your saying WW2 was a bigger factor contributing to the modern wealth of nations that centuries of imperialism.
WW2 was a huge conflict, Germany was in ruins. But here you can see the example of being ruled by different shit. The west of Germany got some money and was an ally again, the east of Germany is more fucked. Wars take a heavy toll on a country, so you better get something back when you win. WW2 was pretty pointless, it was about stopping German spergs from becoming a regional/world super power. Switzerland in WW2 was neutral. Shooting allied and axis planes left and right, screaming about neutrality while producing shit for Germany and sitting on a chair made from Nazi gold.

>>You need good climate otherwise you're fucked
why are you listing places that got settled when people had technology and shit?

>>135421196
>as far as I know the soil there is exceptionally good because fertile from all the dead organic matter in rain forests.

I think it's actually the opposite in the tropical regions. Because the climate is so good for life, bugs and other small things break down all the dead organic matter very quickly making the soil poor in quality. Where as in a temperate climate that dead organic matter can build up and makes the soil better

>>135426272
The mountainous areas are also those that still have native majorities, because the Incan Empire extended across the Andes mountain range. (Peru and Bolivia)

>>135426577
>It's the opposite
This is what you said earlier:
>that's how you got richer, because you were the one exploiting other nations
So you're literally just changing your argument as soon as you're proven wrong

Also, if colonised nations are always made poorer as a result, why is the African nation with the greatest colonial presence also the richest by far (South Africa), even discounting the white population?

I didn't ask you for a terrible summary of WW2, I asked if you were saying that 6 years of war had more impact on modern the modern wealth of European nations than 400 years of empire, but as you avoided the question I assume you are conceding that point as well.

>why are you listing places that got settled when people had technology and shit?

So again, success comes from 'technology and shit', not natural resources.

By the way, every country on earth now has access to better tech than was available when any of those countries were settled.

>>135405234
Cold weather is about problem solving. You don't get creative, and work hard, you die.

In the caribbean you get some fruit from the tree, fuck some chicks and relax on a hammock. Why bothering doing anyithing else?

>>135418679
I'll just remind everyone here that Norway was a colony until 19fucking05. /thread

>>135428552
Excellent point. Like Ireland, another example of a colonised country becoming richer than its coloniser.

Colder tempertaures provided greater environmental pressures for early man. K-selected caucusoids developed greater cognitive ability through thousands of years of evolution in the harsh cold climate of ice age era Europe.

>>135415839
Cant you explain alot of that with westernization actually working out for the japs

>>135428299
Even the the fertile crescent has a winter.Baghdad's average low temp in january is about the same as london. I live in Minnesota, which is cold as shit, and I had one HS teacher who served in the gulf war and he said that sleeping out in that desert on his mission was the coldest he's ever been in his life.

Places near the equator have basically the same temp year round, the only difference is weather its wet/dry

You guys are close, but there is so much wrong information here. I thought /pol was smarter than the normies.

The difference can be solely attributed to omega-3, specifically DHA and EPA, which the brain uses as fuel (not glucose).

Omega-3 is destroyed easily by heat and light. That explains why countries with abundant heat and light are dumb, and ones with cold weather and little sunlight are smart. It explains why people in Southwest part of the US are dumb and people in the Northeast are smarter. It explains why fish that live in cold, dark water have so much omega-3, but fish in warm, sunny water have very little. Omega-3 gets destroyed by heat and light.

>>135427771
Whoops, SA is actually fourth now.

But the 3 above it (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Botswana) were also places with heavy colonial presence. Compare to Ethiopia, which was the most developed SSA country before 1880.

>>135430032
Fucking this. This also explains why all the worlds top minds are eskimos

In a cold climate, you do not have competition from a lot of animals, predatory and insects, or bacteria.

But there are quite a lot of resources no other organism uses. If you're able to plan and exploit them, you have a significant advantage. It's a real difference because you can make use of otherwise unused potential. As such advancements into that direction will be rewarded generously by the natural selection.

>>135406849
this is a general thing. If it's warm you tend to be lazy because you need to avoid generating heat. This might also explain why blacks are so reluctant and slow moving.

>>135409305
also here is a study looking at brain temperature and stimulation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC16592/

- stimulated brain utilizes oxygen
- heat is generated in the oxydizing process
- heat is removed through blood flow

>>135409867
do you know what's also inherited
yeah that's right your genetical makeup

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Africa has practically infinite basic resources. This glut of resources meant little need of efficiency. However, it also meant a greater density of life competing for all of it. Yet, even a loss could be easily recovered from. Evolution in africa, therefor, selected for anything that gave short term benefit. This meant rapid breeding, aggression, and expansion. Intelligence offered little immediate benefit, so there was little evolutionary pressure selecting for it.

As you move further from the equator, there is less energy from the sun, and therefor, less opportunity for food to grow. Long-term traits become increasingly favored. Efficiency and permanency become the meta-game, in the face of potential food shortages, while being enabled by having less competition.

>>135405234
We need quality shelter and infrastructure to maintain an existence. Without it you'll die in the winter.

it does get nasty when you head twords the equator kek #thuglife

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>>135405234
yes, the mind works better in cooler conditions also, in the cold you had to fight to survive, which also sharpens the mind.

>>135433950
i can see why "egyptian nationalism" was a thing with some egyptians there

>>135433699
looting and robbing is fundamentally the faster benefit for less work, and it's pretty difficult to create an environment where that's not the case. civilizations accomplished this though.