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> ‘While it cannot be said that youthfulness “causes” war,’ he writes, ‘or that maturity “causes” peace, a society’s age structure creates background conditions

by mulmen 5y ago

> ‘While it cannot be said that youthfulness “causes” war,’ he writes, ‘or that maturity “causes” peace, a society’s age structure creates background conditions against which other things either do or don’t spark conflict.’ Literally the next sentence.

yobbo 5y ago
In case someone is still wondering about this. A plausible correlation would be; a spike in population growth would cause both an excess of young men, and a shortage of resources (which is a cause for war).
yobbo 5y ago
That sentence does nothing to explain causation.