I haven't had time until now, but I also wanted to reply to your comment about lies and history. The lies I've seen about the Native Americans are just the same one's you're espousing here. You see, here in the states, they teach that the Indians were only victims, that they never attacked whites unprovoked, and that everything was stolen from them. They were noble and communal people who were in balance with nature according to my public education, and the whites came and killed them in an effort to steal everything they had. Do a little digging, and you'll find plenty of first-hand accounts of the treachery of Native Americans, in which some were conniving, evil, murderous and even cannibals. The only reason they had such harmony with nature is because it killed most of them at a young age and they were never able to conquer it.
That's not to say that white Europeans weren't without fault in all of this, or that as a culture it's perfect, but it certainly wasn't anything close to the genocidal mania it was characterized as by my school teachers and the Hollywood elite. Sorry to burst your bubble buddy, but what you're saying is the lie. The white people made numerous efforts to coexist with the natives, and they often were the first to draw blood.
Those 40,000 dead you talk about in England from winter weather are pensioners. What that means is that they are supposedly taken care of by the state, pointing to the fact that the reasons for their deaths isn't the lack of compassion and empathy in European culture for the elderly and infirmed. Quite the opposite. Most of these people wouldn't even be alive at this age in a hunter-gatherer scenario. They simply are more susceptible to cold than the young, and that's why we see more of them dying during winter. And yes, infant mortality definitely should count towards life expectancy numbers. They don't skew anything, they're important data in determining the health of everyone, not just the strong who are lucky enough to survive birth as in hunter-gatherer societies.
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