[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[Dirk Bruere]

Keith Henson wrote:

>
> One modern example is the fading of the IRA in Northern Ireland.  
> 30-35 years ago the women there cut the birth rate to near 
> replacement.  The growth of the economy eventually got ahead of 
> population growth resulting in rising income per capita.  Their stone 
> age brains then said "that's enough war" even though not very many had 
> been killed and the population's support for the IRA warriors dried up.
>
The war ion N Ireland stopped for a number of reasons.
In order of importance they were:

a) The Catholic minority has been breeding faster than the Protestant 
majority and within a decade the positions will be reversed.
b) The future of NI is to be determined by a simple majority vote in a 
referendum once every seven yrs (IIRC)
c) The IRA, after 30yrs of war, was still no closer to any kind of 
military victory. Just the opposite
d) Eire had ceased to be a rabid Catholic theocracy sometime in the 80s/90s
e) Eire was now prosperous and the people of NI saw it as being 
something better than becoming a province in the European eqivalent of 
the Ayalollah's poverty stricken Iran.

-- 
Dirk

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