What are the worst things in the world that have technically saved a life at one point or another?
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Replying to @literalbanana
Fitz Haber did his entire thing to poison-gas the enemies of his nation in painful deaths, left his pacifist wife after arguing and didn't go to her burial after her suicide (their child left alone too) and his reaction literally saved billions of lives from death by starvation
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes @literalbanana
Like, the Norman Bourlaug green revolution last I read saved less lives, and that dude was intentionally on it to save lives. My go to example for scientists as powerless cogs in the machine and society being the one that decides how all that is used
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes @literalbanana
on, and btw, daily reminder than we haven't proved Malthusiansim wrong, we just kept outrunning it, if we stop pulling off tricks by the time of the supposed peak population size mid century of 9 billion the crash and burn will be a disaster unprecedented in human history
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a lot scarier than moore’s law running out
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