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@FabiusMaximus01 You've given me food for thought! Agree w/ you re foolish 70s alarmism on population & enviro–but was it Left alarmism?
@ChMadar Even today both Left & Right rely on fear, but of different kinds, held as tribal truths. Skepticism = heresy or apostasy.
@FabiusMaximus01 Malthusianism splits both Left & Right... both Marx & Julian Simon anti-Malthusian...
@ChMadar Marx died a long time ago. Modern Left is quite different, much of which Marx would abhor. Large Nietzsche component.
@FabiusMaximus01 Yes... but are still anti-Malthusian lefties, like late Alex Cockburn. My 1st @TheNation article was anti-Malthus polemic.
@FabiusMaximus01 Though certainly true that much of broad liberal, espesh cultural but only slackly political liberals, are alarmist on pop
@ChMadar It's a feature not a bug of both Left & Right. Current system makes heroes of people like Paul Ehrlich, no mater how often wrong.
@ChMadar ZeroHedge is pure model of political com today: a dramatic mix of fact & fiction, consumed as unquestioned dogma by faithful
@ChMadar Yes, largely. Right disagreed w/ pollution doomsters. Right even now often skeptical about danger of pop growth.
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