In well-fed US society, there is probably more male than female. That is why woman's rights are respected because women are a precious treasure of US society.
Human rights and climate change.
Bogdan Góralski
Library of the Historical Institute of the Warsaw University
Gender issues of human frustrate public opinion around the globe. In my Polish book entitled
"Historia naturalna i zmiany klimatu" I present the impact of climate change on our civilization. This
article discusses the issue of changes in women's and men's rights during climate change.
As described by Krzysztof Szymborski in a book entitled Political Animal (Szymborski K. 2011), apes
retain a clear division of cultural distinctiveness of each gender. Females occupy the offspring and
the male's fight over territory and females.
Differences in social functions result from the struggle for existence and about, not conscious,
preservation of the species. Evolution has changed monkeys morphologically into humans, but the
social characteristics of sex in human herds generally remain unchanged. The evolution of the human
climate played a great role. Climate change caused movements of vegetation zones and the resulting
migration of hominids and later groups of people (See the chapter entitled Notes on the evolution of
mammals and climate changes).
As a result of climate change, the civilization of human groups developed, and human culture was
created. This culture differed in human groups shaped in a warm climate and a cold climate.
Warm climate causes greater individualization of humans - a small group it was easier to survive in a
more friendly, warm environment limited surface. In these smaller teams of humans, where hunting
was cultivated as an addition to the picking of fruits, etc., count every human, also women skillful in
picking fruits, etc. - what created a culture of gender equality.
The cold climate created human herds capable of hunting large animals, which provided most of the
food. In these groups of humans, survival was dependent on successful hunting conducted by a
group of males, the culture of male superiority was formed.
Both of these cultures, shaped by hundreds of thousands of years, have survived to this day, along
with the genes of their representatives and have differentiated contemporary global human society in
terms of the rights of women and men.
Climate change and the economic and social development of human civilization.
In areas, foreground Pleistocene glaciers formed fertile soils, which began to be used for agriculture
during the Holocene climate warming, which resulted in a new type of human culture - the culture of
the groups of farmers in the fixed farms. Agricultural populations grew in number because in the
cultivation of new areas of land still, it was necessary new hands to work. Human societies needed
women and children. The study of the German sociologist ((Richard Grunberger 1987) Social History
of the Third Reich, PIW)), indicates that in the small farms, most of the works perform the women. In
connection with the greater responsibility of women for the family's survival, women's rights in
developing agricultural populations are respected. Women have equal rights.
This culture developed initially on the South of Eurasian continent when northern the glaciers
retreated, and the climate was warming itself, eg. In Anatolia, Mesopotamia, southern China. In the
South of Eurasia developed many communities of people engaged in agriculture. In the Holocene,
climate changes were occurring and during historical times have caused a shift of precipitation zones and zones of the lush vegetation to the north and with them were moved the locations of centers of human civilization. The former centers of crops, eg. In Egypt and Mesopotamia, and southern China have lost importance as a result of a more dry climate, and the monsoon zone shifted more to the north.
During the last Pleistocene glaciation stadial, China's air temperature decreased by an average of 6-8
degrees Celsius, and the summer monsoon zone coverage shifted 700 km southeast ((Burroughs,
William J. (2005), Climate change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos, New York: Cambridge
University Press)). During the Holocene warming, monsoon shifted to the north. Peoples farming in
the South then began work on the creation of irrigation systems fields on the lands on which lacked
rainfall.
As a result of the more dry climate, old agricultural centers declined, and the population settled in
these lands began subjected to overcrowding. Many farmer's populations subjected to the pressure
of the deterioration of the climate began to adapt to the changed conditions slowly. Irrigation was no
longer sufficient to ensure an abundance of food, so it began to change the culture of society, which
was affected by a lack of food. First of all, the social mechanisms mapped by the customs started to
limit the population. Under these conditions, women's importance decreased because women had
been blamed responsible for causing the problem of population growth. During the worsening of
climatic conditions, food production decreases, and the human population is less well-fed, which
causes a decrease in male fetal births. Then the number of female fetal births increases, which
causes an increase in the number of women in society and then appears social behaviors that discriminate against women sometimes lead to the killing of newborn girls, which results in a reduction of the population. In well-fed US society, there is probably more male
than female. That is why woman's rights are respected because women are a precious treasure of US society.
In poorly nourished Russian society, more girls are born and women predominate, therefore they have low social prestige in Russia and are discriminated against.
There were restricted the rights of women, and sexual behavior was subject to strict rules. To this
day, the most overcrowded populations admit the slightest rights to women, eg. In India, China,
where even the murder of newborn girls is commonplace. Islamic countries situated mainly in the
South, where the Prophet Muhammad granted the great rights to women differentiate itself into
more or less pro feminine depending on the biological standard of living of their populations. The
worse the living standards, the rights of women less.
In northern countries, to which centers of civilization were moved, vegetation zones are the greatest
as a result of a favorable climate today, agriculture flourishes and are the basis of the economic
pyramid developed by the northern population. There are conditions for the development of the
industry producing for agriculture and create new jobs. The need for people to work and there is
beginning to employ women. Women begin to educate — rising education of women in richer
societies conducive to exploring mitigation techniques of procreation. Northern populations reduce
birth rates and continue to develop economically due to export products to the less developed areas
of the world. Arrives jobs and grows demand for workers. Therefore workers' rights are respected,
including the rights of women gaining employment in the industry.
An example of a community with large rights granted to women in Polish society. Our country has
always suffered from a lack of people to work and in the Middle Ages populations of German flooded
our country by waves of migrants, which resulted in the colonization of Poland by Germans on
German law. This was due to favorable climatic, environmental conditions to the west of Europe,
promote great procreation and proliferation of the German population and its migration toward the
sparsely populated eastern lands. The size of the population of Poland did not develop dynamically,
which was due to worse than in Western Europe climatic conditions; therefore, it was still missing in Poland's hands to work, which caused the phenomenon of serfdom and conducive to respect women and their rights.
Also, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Poland, there was a masculinization of
society. Decrease of Polish exports of grain improved the feeding of Polish society, so that gave rise
inborn to many more boys than girls. It caused the lack of women in the Polish population and
increased respect for them during the formation of the modern Polish culture. Women commonly
died in the postpartum period, and therefore Polish men attempted to secure women customary
rights and privileges to encourage them to give birth. Women in too small Polish population were
protected by such customary law of succession and surrounded by male care.
Since Polish society was agricultural and farming conditions resulting from an unfavorable climate
were bad Polish women did most duties in conducting usually small farms. Increased responsibility
of women for the survival of the family gave them power over families. The rights of Polish women
grew with their responsibility for the survival of their families and the women's rights in Europe.
On the social mechanisms in Polish society had an impact in contacts with a large community of
Polish Jews, among which Judaism laws favored women. Women's rights are greatest in populations
at risk of extinction. Jews lived in a hostile Christian environment, and they were constantly
threatened with extinction so that Jewish families were granted the right of unpunished murder of a
man who neglected to maintain the Jewish family. Jewish women still govern their families, and the
rights conferred on them likely originated in a time when the widespread persecution and pogroms
threatened the Jewish population. Excessive rights granted to women brought growth homosexuality
among men, because homosexual relationships satisfy sexual desire, and there is no danger for
men's relationships with women that cause the development of dangerous families' rights.
The above-described differences in respecting the rights of women in different areas of climatic
conditions allow the supposition that the favorable climate and developing agriculture well affect the
human economy and gender equality. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that equalize the rights
and responsibilities of women and men in Poland, it will be possible in the conditions of developing
agriculture and the economy. Polish agriculture can develop only by restoring the feudal system
conducive to the growth of the population.
The Polish industry and agriculture can develop only by the introduction of protecting men the
voluntary principle of inheritance by the society of acquired property. This will introduce the equality
of all citizens and develop our civilization.
Polish populations can be enlarged by the migration of peasants families from overpopulated
countries of the South. My essay is an appeal to Polish women: "If you want to improve your life and
life of your family, look after women from overcrowded countries".." Woman, be more forgiving of
Polish men". It will improve your life being.
Warsaw, 27-30 November 2014
Bogdan Góralski