Very timely piece on naive environmental anti-natalism. I myself flirted with this position briefly before being exposed to the positive effects of (economic and particularly population) growth, and modern pro-natal views by:
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@_TamaraWinter
@bryan_caplanhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1124867269794811904 …
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just strikes me as strange to uncritically support continued exponential growth despite the knowledge that it's eroding the systems that make human existence possible in the first place.
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The nature-as-aesthetic circlejerk is doing no good to anybody. Nuclear & lab meat are actual solutions that don't appease the would-be office hippie with a screensaver of the Amazon. All I'm suggesting is that such people give themselves a tiny, tiny taste of the real thing.
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